Notes

01 May 1981 Comments Notes Buzzard preying on Short-eared Owl At about 13.00 GMT on 26th October 1978,1 observed a Short-eared Owl Asio lammeus quartering the Chy-kembro Common, near Zennor, west Cornwall, at a height of l-2m. Suddenly, a Buzzard Buteo buteo flew up from...
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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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