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Interactions between House Sparrows and Sparrowhawks

01 December 1979 Comments Main paper Recent work on the development of feeding skills by young birds has highlighted the fact that many are less successful than adults at capturing prey (e.g. Orians 1969; Buckley & Buckley 1974). Young Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, for example...

Migration of the Oystercatcher in the area of Britain

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Studies of Sparrowhawks

01 June 1973 Comments Main paper Roy Blewitt's photographs are the first of the Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus to be published in British Birds since the long series which accompanied J. H. Owen's remarkable studies during 1916-36. They show well the uniform upperparts (plates 41a, 42b, ...

Effect of laying date on chick production in Oystercatchers and Herring Gulls

01 January 1969 Comments Main paper It has been widely believed that birds timed their breeding seasons so that the young were raised when food was most abundant or easily obtained, but Perrins (1965, 1966) showed for two such different species as the Great Tit Parus major and the Manx Shea...

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 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...

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Interactions between House Sparrows and Sparrowhawks

Migration of the Oystercatcher in the area of Britain

Studies of Sparrowhawks

Effect of laying date on chick production in Oystercatchers and Herring Gulls

Wool causing injuries to legs and feet of Oystercatchers

Letters

Migration of the Oystercatcher

Observations on the feeding of the Oystercatcher in Captivity

Flocking behaviour of Oystercatchers

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