Notes

01 July 1984 Comments Notes Black-necked Grebe jump-diving. Without being claimed as an absolutely diagnostic identification feature, it is generally assumed in the literature that the Black-necked Grebe Podiceps nigricollis does not usually leap out of the water when diving. BWP...
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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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