Notes

01 November 2000 Comments Notes Twenty-three years ago, information from national breeding-bird atlas projects was used to generate provisional Europe-wide maps of the breeding distribution of the continent's ten species of woodpecker (Picidae) (Brit. Birds 70: 476-488). Subsequently...
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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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