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01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...

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01 November 1944 Comments Notes ALTHOUGH Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. cowrie) and Rooks (Corvus f, frugilegws) have been recorded occasionally as nesting on electric pylons, it may be of interest to record that as a result of observations by Mr. A. E. Billett at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 October 1944 Comments Main paper STONE-CURLEW (Burhinus ce. cedicnemus). In second half of 19th century became extinct in Cotswolds (Gloucestershire and N.W. Oxfordshire) and in E. Midlands (Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire). Has decreased elsewhere (almost extin...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 August 1944 Comments Main paper IN view of the present interest in animal fluctuations, a survey has been "made of every bird breeding in the British Isles, to see what proportion of the species have increased, decreased or remained at about the same level during the last one, hundred y...

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01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

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01 August 1940 Comments Notes ON June 4th, 1940, on a common in Cheshire I found a nest of a Tree-Pipit (Anthus t. trivialis) with recently hatched young. The parent bird sat very close after going down with food, whilst I was searching for the nest; when it left the nest it fluttere...

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01 July 1940 Comments Notes AT a rookery in Surrey, on March 30th, 1940, at 12.5 p.m., Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) were seen to change over at the nest. One bird--obviously a male--flew in and standing on the nest edge fed his plainly visible mate. During the meal wing-action by t...

Skokholm bird observatory homing Experiments 1. 1936-37. Puffins, Storm-Petrels and Manx Shearwaters

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper THE formation of a Bird Observatory at Skokholm, off the South Wales coast, has provided opportunities for testing the homing capacities of various nesting sea-birds, after the manner of Watson and Lashley [8] with other sea-birds, and more recently Ruppe...

Further Notes on Territory in the Great Crested Grebe

01 August 1936 Comments Main paper THE writers (6) have previously published an account of territorial fighting in the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps c. cristatus) on Frensham Ponds, Surrey, between 1932 and 1934. On Great Pond (69! acres) six to seven pairs nested close together with no ob...

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Notes

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Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Notes

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

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Skokholm bird observatory homing Experiments 1. 1936-37. Puffins, Storm-Petrels and Manx Shearwaters

Further Notes on Territory in the Great Crested Grebe

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