Letters

01 December 1984 Comments Letters Tufted Duck carrying young. In connection with the recent notes by Montse Carbonell and Stephen B. Edwards (Brit. Birds 77: 318-319), I should like to draw attention to a previous published account by my husband, the late Dr Jeffery Harrison, of a fema...
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Notes

01 December 1984 Comments Notes Grey Heron parents attending grounded nestlings. In my monograph on the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (1954, The Heron), I stated of young blown from the treetops that 'If in crashing the bird breaks a leg or wing it will not survive long, but if uninjured ...
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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...
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