Breeding biology of Rock Doves

01 October 1968 Comments Main paper Just over twenty years ago Lees (1946) published an account of the breeding of Rock Doves Columba livia on the Cromarty coast of Scotland. He showed that eggs could be laid in every month of the year, giving the species the distinction of having the mo...
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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...
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