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Wool causing injuries to legs and feet of Oystercatchers

01 June 1968 Comments Main paper Although many diseases and deformities of the legs and bills of wild birds have been described (e.g. Keymer 1958, Keymer and Blackmore 1964, Pomeroy 1962), few records of leg and foot deformities among waders (Charadriiformes) appear to have been publishe...

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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...

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01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

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?uÃŸnH$) puffinus on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, I n the past...

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01 May 1960 Comments Letters Migrations of the Oystercatcher Sirs,--Since Mr. D . G. Andrew in his recent paper {Brit. Birds, 5 2: 216-220) on the migrations of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostrakgus) makes some criticism of my earlier paper on the same subject (Brit. Birds, 50: 519...

Migration of the Oystercatcher

01 July 1959 Comments Main paper ONE OF THE tentative conclusions reached in E. J. M. Buxton's paper on this subject (antea, vol. L, pp. 519-526) was that mature Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) "do not move so far away from their breeding area as immature birds". This conclusion c...

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

01 April 1958 Comments Main paper (Fisheries Experiment Station,; Conway) ESTIMATES of the food intake of the Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) have been made in the field in the past three years (Drinnan, 1956, 1957). These have yielded results consistently higher than food intakes r...

Flocking behaviour of Oystercatchers

01 March 1953 Comments Main paper SOME observations made in company with Ian Munro during a twohours' watch from a permanent hide, built by him near the tip of a sand-and-shingle spit in the Eden estuary, Fife, may have some interest for students of bird behaviour. We entered the hide two...

The pseudo-sleeping attitude of the Oyster-catcher

01 January 1950 Comments Main paper (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) IT IS well-known from the work of Makkink (1942) and Edwards et al. (1948) that in certain situations the Oyster-catcher (Hcematopus ostralegus) adopts a " pseudo-sleeping " attitude. The bird stands on one or both legs, with ...

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Wool causing injuries to legs and feet of Oystercatchers

Letters

Letters

Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters on Skokholm

Letters

Migration of the Oystercatcher

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

Flocking behaviour of Oystercatchers

The pseudo-sleeping attitude of the Oyster-catcher

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