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01 November 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...

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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...

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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

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