Nurney, D, Komolphalin, K, Housden, S, Dunn, J, Ogilvie, M. A, Swanberg, O, Teagle, W. G, Vleugel, D. A, Blake, A. R. M, Venables, U. M, V, L. S, Craske, H. J, Goodwin, D, Westall, P. R, Harber, D. D, Hšhn, E. O, Roberts, E. L, Campbell, J. W, Cawkell, E. M, Hay, J. H, Meiklejohn, M. F. M, White, W. W & Moreau, R. E / September 1947 – vol. 40, issue 9–⁠288

ON April 22nd, 1947, near Muthill, Perthshire, I caught a glimpse, from a car, of a commotion in some rough grassland near the edge of a wood. I stopped the car and my wife and I then saw that a pair of Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) was attacking something hidden from our view in the rough grass. One of the Carrion Crows would swoop down, and then rise a few feet in the air with a Jay (Garrulu...

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