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01 September 1959 Comments Notes with Mackerel shoals.--During- the months of July, August and September, Mackerel (Scomber scomber) habitually enter the Village Bay of Hirta, St, Kilda, in the late afternoon and evening. These shoals are often pursued by Grey Seals (Halichoerus gryphus)...

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper frugilegus) carried out while I was holding a Nature Conservancy Post-Graduate Studentship at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford, in 1952 and 1953. All four rookeries concerned were within 10 miles of Oxford and were on rather similar farming land. T h e f...

Letter

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-...

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The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

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

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