Notes

01 March 1962
Comments Notes Peregrine incubating Kestrel's eggs.--On 13 th May 1961, I was prospecting some crags in the Great Glen, Inverness-shire, in the hope of rinding a pair of nesting Peregrines (Falco peregrinus). As I approached the most likely-looking face from below, a fe...
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Foot-paddling in Gulls

01 March 1962
Comments Main paper I S H O U L D L I K E to supplement the interesting comments recently made by Sparks (1961) on the functions of foot-paddling in gulls, since more is known about it than is apparent from his article. In my book The Herring Gull's World (1953), where I ref...
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Letters

01 July 1953
Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...
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Reviews

01 July 1953
Comments Reviews Yorkshire Birds. By Ralph Chislett. (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., 1953). 25s. Mr. Chislett lists among his qualifications for this work a professional training as a chartered accountant, and although he notes sadly that the application to bird records of effect...
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