breeding season. In two of these years, 1962 and 1965, they are known to have nested successfully in one locality. A brief reference to the earlier records and to the 1962 nesting appeared in Edwin Cohen's The Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1963), but no details have otherwise been published and the aim of this short paper is to summarise the data so far collected. The breeding records i...

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