Notes

01 November 1989
Comments Notes Western Reef Heron eating Phylloscopus warblers. On 11th March 1984, in a well-watered hotel garden at Hurghada, Egypt, a solitary Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis schistacea was observed at close quarters. Suddenly, the heron darted forward and took...
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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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