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Manx Shearwaters on Skomer: Population and mortality due to gull predation

01 April 1973 Comments Main paper Skomer Island, lying off the south-western tip of the rocky Pembrokeshire coast, has long been recognised as an important breeding site for Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus. The breeding biology and winter migrations of this species are now well know... Read More

Ospreys in action

01 June 1968 Comments Main paper The Osprey Pandion haliaetus was featured in our series of 'less familiar birds' in 1956 (Brit Birds, 49: 489-492, plates 65-72); the photographs then, by M, D. England, showed the bird perched, the pair at the nest, the nest site, the habitat and other a... Read More

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... Read More

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

01 October 1965 Comments Main paper I N V A R I O U S P A P E R S , Dane, Miles and Stoker (1948-5 3) havedescribed a virus disease, puffinosis, which causes epizootics (animal epidemics) among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria (=T?ußnH$) puffinus on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, I n the past... Read More