Notes

01 February 1957 Comments Notes Snipe with abnormal bill.--On 25Ü1 July 1956, at Crook, near Kendal, Westmorland, I took a photograph (see plate 16) of a female Snipe (Capella gallinago) with an up-curved bill. The bird was incubating four eggs in a grass tussock in low-lying, swampy...
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Notes

01 May 1935 Comments Notes ANYONE who has trapped Hedge-Sparrows {Prunella modularis) knows that, in the excitement of being released, they will go through most of the typical actions of sexual display such as raising or dragging one wing, shuffling along the ground, half-rolling ...
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