Hamblin, B. G, Weller, E, Weller, J, Stephenson, F. E, Griffiths, G, Griffiths, J, Macdonald, J. W, Ratcliffe, D. A, Harber, D. D, Hamblin, B. G, Weller, E, Weller, J, Stephenson, F. E, Griffiths, G, Griffiths, J, Macdonald, J. W, Ratcliffe, D. A, Harber, D. D, Macdonald, J. W, Harber, D. D & Ratcliffe, D. A / December 1955 – vol. 48, issue 12–⁠466

Peregrines rearing young Kestrels.--On n t h April 1963 W. N. Charles and I flushed a Peregrine {Fako peregrinus) from its eyrie in an old Raven (Corvus corax) nest in the Dumfriesshire hills. There were four eggs, one of which we took (under licence) for chemical analysis because the eggs of this pair had been broken in 1962, apparently by the Peregrines themselves, and it was suspected that the ...

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