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01 March 1946 Comments Notes O N March ijth, 1945, I was in a convoy moving slowly south through the'Irish Sea. The day was brilliantly fine, the sea quite calm. In the morning the Welsh Hills were visible, but otherwise we saw neither coast. There was no fog, however. There was a v...

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01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...

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01 November 1944 Comments Notes ALTHOUGH Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. cowrie) and Rooks (Corvus f, frugilegws) have been recorded occasionally as nesting on electric pylons, it may be of interest to record that as a result of observations by Mr. A. E. Billett at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 October 1944 Comments Main paper STONE-CURLEW (Burhinus ce. cedicnemus). In second half of 19th century became extinct in Cotswolds (Gloucestershire and N.W. Oxfordshire) and in E. Midlands (Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire). Has decreased elsewhere (almost extin...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 August 1944 Comments Main paper IN view of the present interest in animal fluctuations, a survey has been "made of every bird breeding in the British Isles, to see what proportion of the species have increased, decreased or remained at about the same level during the last one, hundred y...

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01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

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01 December 1942 Comments Notes a short visit to Lundy in September, 1942, we identified a Lapland Bunting {Cakarius lapponicus) on the high barren area at the north end of the island on September ioth. The species has not previously been met with on Lundy, nor in the county of Devon. ...

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01 August 1942 Comments Notes ON AprÃ¼ I9th, 1942 in a garden near Lancaster I saw Long-tailed Tits {Mgithalos c. rosaceus) taking feathers to a nest in a berberis bush. About May 4th they were carrying food to young and on a number of subsequent evenings I was able to watch them, ...

Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

01 August 1941 Comments Main paper study was made on the Dartington Hall estate, South Devon, in 1940, when the abnormal cold weather in late January and early February made possible the trapping and colour-ringing of an unusually large number of Blackbirds (Turdus m. tnerula). Unfortunate...

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01 August 1940 Comments Notes ON June 4th, 1940, on a common in Cheshire I found a nest of a Tree-Pipit (Anthus t. trivialis) with recently hatched young. The parent bird sat very close after going down with food, whilst I was searching for the nest; when it left the nest it fluttere...

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Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

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Notes on the spring Territory of the Blackbird

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