Notes

01 July 1990 Comments Notes Little Grebes rearing three broods in Buckinghamshire. Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis first bred at Aylesbury sewage-works, Buckinghamshire, in 1981, when a wet grassland irrigation plot remained flooded throughout the summer. In 1986, a small (0...
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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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