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An Index of Heron Population

01 April 1935 Comments Main paper WHEN the " British Birds Census of Heronries Report " was published in 1929 it was recommended that another complete census of British heronries should be taken not later than about 1940, if the full advantages of the 1928 Census were to be reaped. On the...

Notes on the Rook: with special Reference to the proportion of young in flocks, and the change over from the winter roost to the Rookery

01 April 1935 Comments Main paper A recent book, The Life of the Rook, by G. K. Yeates, makes one realize how much remains to be known about this bird, and emboldens me to give a summary of notes I have taken. There is a small rookery at my house. I t is not a winter roost. The number of ...

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01 August 1931 Comments Notes ON June 2nd, 1931, I was able to identify an Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) on Skokholm. As it was in an exhausted state I was able to examine it from within three yards, as it rested in a niche of my garden wall. The small, reddisri bill was unmis...

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An Index of Heron Population

Notes on the Rook: with special Reference to the proportion of young in flocks, and the change over from the winter roost to the Rookery

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