Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973
Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...
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The Building of A Rookery

01 January 1951
Comments Main paper OGILVIE OBSERVATIONS on Rook (Corvus frugilegus) behaviour during the incubation period and in winter have been recorded in previous issues of British Birds (antm, vol. xl, pp. 135-139, and xlii, pp. 65-68). The notes which follow are based on a study of...
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Further Notes on the Sparrow-Hawk

01 June 1936
Comments Main paper time to time I have contributed articles to British Birds dealing chiefly with the home life of the Sparrow-Hawk* (Accipiter n. riisus). Since 1924 I have not done any photography, but otherwise I have kept notes of my observations. These have done littl...
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