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01 January 1966 Comments Letters Birds trapped by sludge or m u d Sirs,--I was most interested to read the note by G. L. Webber {Brit. Birds, 5 8: 296-297) on 'Birds trapped by sludge on a sewage farm'. I have found at Freckleton sewage farm and various other sites in Lancashire, includi...

Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

01 April 1965 Comments Main paper Fakotinnunculusis perhaps the most common member of the Falconiform.es to be found in the British Isles and, as such, its prey in England has been the subject of a number of papers, notably those of Ellis (1946), Davis (i960) and Simms (1961). However, ve...

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01 November 1960 Comments Letters "Kestrel pellets at a winter roost" Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by T. A. W. Davis on his examination of pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) at winter roosts in Pembrokeshire {Brit. Birds, 53: 281-284). May I, however, make one small correcti...

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

01 July 1960 Comments Main paper D U R I N G T H E W I N T E R of 1958-59 I collected 113 pellets of Kestrels (Falco tinnunculus) beneath roosts in a disused quarry near the Dale estuary, Pembrokeshire. The quarry is on a steep bracken-covered hillside surrounded by farmland and the salt...

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXVI. Osprey

01 December 1956 Comments Main paper (Plates 65-72) LIKE a number of the birds of prey, the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) is a widespread species and h a s a breeding-range which extends from Alaska in the north-west to Australia in the south-east. It is, however, mainly a bird of the northern ...

Notes

01 June 1955 Comments Notes Unusual nest of Black-throated Diver.--The photographs reproduced on plate 40 show an unusual nest of the Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) which I found in June 1954 in central Sweden. This was built up on small rocks in the centre of a large lake whe...

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01 July 1946 Comments Notes Ox February 22nd, 1946, I received word from David Reid that a pair of Ravens {Corvus c. corax) were building a nest in a small Ayrshire heronry. I visited the site two days later and the nest, which could be distinguished from the Herons' by the presenc...

Notes on the food of the Kestrel

01 April 1946 Comments Main paper THE following information has been gathered as the result of analyses of 206 pellets of the Kestrel (Fako t. timmnculus) collected at regular intervals between July 1st, 1944, and March 24th, 1945, from a roost in an old shed and are believed, from feathe...

Notes

01 March 1945 Comments Notes IN reference to Mr. David Lack's note on Blackbirds (Turdus m. merula) singing in London at the end of January (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p. 116), in some parts of London such as Kensington, where there are many houses with gardens, it is quite exceptional fo...

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Notes on the summer food of the Kestrel in northern Ireland

Letters

Kestrel pellets at a winter roost

Photographic Studies of Some Less Familiar Birds: LXXVI. Osprey

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Notes on the food of the Kestrel

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