Letters

01 December 1976
Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Letters

01 March 1975
Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters plunge-diving Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus commonly feed by plunge-diving, in the manner described by Bernard King {Brit. Birds, 67: 77), when fish shoals are located very close to the surface. I think that the presence ,...
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Letters

01 January 1967
Comments Letters 'Meat or sickly sweets' Sirs,--I entirely disagree with Philip S. Redman (Brk. Birds, 59: 390). It seems to me that a really comprehensive interest in ornithology must extend beyond the birds to those who have made outstanding contributions to our knowled...
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Letters

01 February 1966
Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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Letters

01 November 1964
Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...
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Letter

01 November 1946
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I have observed no less than twenty-three instances between February 27th and March 7th, 1946, where one Rook (Corvus f. frugUegus) was either in or standing upon t h e nest with two attendant Rooks perched close together a t some twelve t o ...
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Letter

01 October 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t is extremely interesting to have Mr. Dewar's notes on the Roosting of Rooks, taken t h i r t y years ago, over the same area t h a t I dealt with in the August number of British Birds. It is of great importance t h a t the two sets of not...
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Letter

01 August 1933
Comments Letters SIRS,- --In his " Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands," Mr. Roebuck deals (antea, p. 23) with the change in population on breeding. But in only a few lines he tells us that, after May, either a wholesale slaughter in some rookeries or a gradual fall in nu...
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Letters

01 September 1928
Comments Letters SIRS,---Of forty-three nests of the Mistle-Thnish (Turdus v. viscivorus) examined during t h e past eight years in various localities in Cumberland, two held clutches of five eggs each, three had three eggs each, the rest four. One five-egg clutch was fou...
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