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01 October 1946 Comments Notes THE following records of young birds returning to their nest after having left it may be of interest (cf. antea, pp. 26, 152, 178, 246). Greenfinch (Chloris c. chloris). Five hatched. Flew May 30th, 1946. Back in nest 4.30 p.m., summer time, and remained...

Gannets breeding in the channel Islands : Two new Colonies

01 October 1946 Comments Main paper (Plates 40-42). THE first indication we have of the breeding of the Gannet (Sula bassana) in the Channel Islands came in the summer of 1945, when an Alderney fisherman, Mr. E. Quinain, returning home after an enforced absence of five years, noticed that ...

Preliminary Observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers

01 October 1946 Comments Main paper THE reed-bed (Phragmites) where the following observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers (Acrocephalus s. scirpaceus) were carried out is situated in the parish of North Cotes, Lincolnshire, immed iately within the embankment marking the boundary between t...

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01 January 1932 Comments Notes SOME Waxwings (Bombycilla ^arrulus) have reached Norfolk during the last few weeks. On November 3rd, 1931, one was picked up alive at Kelling, under telegraph wires, by the local police constable, but it died and was unfortunately taken by a cat. Some wi...

The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

01 January 1932 Comments Main paper IN early June, 1930, V, C. Wynne-Edwards, J, H. Comyns and the writer visited Lundy, an island of rather over a thousand acres, lying twelve miles out in the Bristol Channel. Our primary objective was to take a bird census of the whole island,* but we wer...

On the breeding of the Storm-Petrel, with special reference to its incubation and fledging-periods

01 January 1932 Comments Main paper (Plate 4.) T H E readiness with which the Storm-Petrel [Hydrobates pelagicus) deserts its egg when its nest is opened has made it difficult to obtain data relating to the incubation- and fledging-periods. In 1930 a series of nests under observation on Sko...

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Gannets breeding in the channel Islands : Two new Colonies

Preliminary Observations on a colony of Reed-Warblers

Article PDF - V26_N08_P253-259_N035.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P260-260_RV037.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P238-245_A033.pdf

Article PDF - V26_N08_P246-252_A034.pdf

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The birds of Lundy Island from 1922 to 1931, with special reference to Numerical Fluctuation

On the breeding of the Storm-Petrel, with special reference to its incubation and fledging-periods

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