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01 August 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,- --In his " Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands," Mr. Roebuck deals (antea, p. 23) with the change in population on breeding. But in only a few lines he tells us that, after May, either a wholesale slaughter in some rookeries or a gradual fall in nu...

The Rook Roosts of South Northumberland and the Boundaries Between their Feeding Territories

01 August 1933 Comments Main paper T H E observations on which this account is based were begun in the Christmas vacation of the winter 1931-32, when one roost was located and a knowledge obtained of the extent of its feeding territory in certain directions. In the following year from mid-...

A Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands

01 June 1933 Comments Main paper THE Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) is an essential part of the English country-side. Its large size, its characteristic cawings and its habit of appearing in flocks all the year round compel attention. Although an arboreal species, so far as nesting is conce...

Notes on Coots

01 May 1933 Comments Main paper IN 1932 many more nests of the Coot (Fulica a. ater) were built on Fetcham Pond, Leatherhead, than I had seen in the previous five years in which I have had the pond under observation. In 1930 there were six nests with 15 young; in 1931 ten nests with 12 ...

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The Rook Roosts of South Northumberland and the Boundaries Between their Feeding Territories

A Survey of the Rooks in the Midlands

Notes on Coots

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