Letter

01 February 1943
Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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Notes

01 February 1943
Comments Notes IN February, 1942, seventy-five nesting boxes were put up inone of the oak woods of the Forest of Dean, with the object of encouraging the breeding of insectivorous birds (tits, in particular) and thus alleviating, if possible, the recurrent outbreaks of...
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The Age of the Blackbird

01 February 1943
Comments Main paper THE potential age, the age to which birds can live, has been the subject of several papers, the earlier ones based on records in captivity, e.g. Gurney (1899), Mitchell (1911), Flower (1925), and the later ones on ringing returns, e.g. Witherby (1926), Ni...
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Notes

01 January 1943
Comments Notes THE Handbook of British Birds states that on the continent Magpies may roost in hundreds, but I have not heard of a roost of any magnitude in this country. On March 30th, 1942 near Northallerton the chattering of Magpies (Pica p. pica) drew my attention ...
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Reactions of Birds to Aircraft

01 January 1943
Comments Main paper is no doubt that the considerable increase in aviation in recent years has given rise to some speculation by ornithologists as to the reactions of birds to aircraft, and therefore some of my experiences in seven years of flying may be of interest. On aero...
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Sky-Lark Song

01 January 1943
Comments Main paper THE following notes on the length of Sky-Lark (Alauda a, arvensis) song may be of interest in connexion with Mr. W. B. Alexander's interesting record of an 18 minute song (antea, Vol. xxxv, p. 160). The point was made in relation to this song that it was...
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