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01 January 1938 Comments Letters SIRS,---Miss Hibbert-Ware (Little Owl Inquiry, antea, pp. 215-216) prefaces her remarks on Little Owls 011 Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, with the w o r d s : " T h e following incident seems, however, t o contradict these conclusions [that t h e Little ...

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01 January 1938 Comments Notes As there is apparently no previous record for the Outer Hebrides, it may be of interest to report that a Hawfinch (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) was killed in North Uist on October 27th, 1937, and that I saw another at Newton Lodge, North Uist, on No...

Skokholm bird observatory homing Experiments 1. 1936-37. Puffins, Storm-Petrels and Manx Shearwaters

01 January 1938 Comments Main paper THE formation of a Bird Observatory at Skokholm, off the South Wales coast, has provided opportunities for testing the homing capacities of various nesting sea-birds, after the manner of Watson and Lashley [8] with other sea-birds, and more recently Ruppe...

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01 May 1929 Comments Notes IN April, 1926, close to my house in Mawgan-in-Pydar, north Cornwall, I found the nest of a Long-tailed Tit (Mgithalos c. rosea) in a low thorn bush, in process of construction. When incubation was commenced, I noticed the tip of the bird's tail projecti...

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Skokholm bird observatory homing Experiments 1. 1936-37. Puffins, Storm-Petrels and Manx Shearwaters

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