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Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

01 September 1959 Comments Obituaries personal friend to many of us but also a serious blow to ornithology and to international science. To many ornithologists he was mainly known through his pioneer studies in bird navigation--which were both original and penetrating--but he did equally outs...

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01 September 1953 Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...

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01 July 1929 Comments Notes As a result of information given them by the late Mr. Good of Westport, that the Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla f. rayi) nested extensively on Mask and Carra, the late Robert Warren and Mr. Williams of Dublin proceeded in 1893 to investigate, with the results...

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Obituaries: Gustav Kramer (1910-1959), James Parsons Burkitt (1870-1959), John Hugh Owen (1877-1959)

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