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Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar... Read More

Notes

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Letters

01 May 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. N. D. Pullen, Mr. H. G. Hurrell and Miss N. C. Hicks (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300 and 360) have drawn attention t o an interesting problem of behaviour. I have observed t h e " digging " in the bottom of the nest, as described by the abov... Read More

Some Remarks on Sex behaviour of Doves

01 May 1946 Comments Main paper The Handbook of British Birds' (Vol. v, p. 280) states on the authority of O. and M. Heinroth that the male Rock-Dove [Columba livid) feeds the female before coition. I think one may safely assume that the pairing ceremonials of the wild and domesticated ... Read More