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Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

01 March 1945 Comments Main paper THROUGH the kindness of Mr. M. C. Harman, the owner, and by permission of the Admiralty the writers were able to spend from July 2nd to loth, 1942, on Lundy. The primary object was to investigate the status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus),'...

Notes

01 December 1944 Comments Notes I HAVE previously (antea, Vol. xxxiii, p. 265) given examples from the Robin (Erithacus rubecula) and the Blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix) of a male attempting to disturb the coition of another pair. Similar behaviour is characteristic of geese and swans, as n...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 October 1944 Comments Main paper STONE-CURLEW (Burhinus ce. cedicnemus). In second half of 19th century became extinct in Cotswolds (Gloucestershire and N.W. Oxfordshire) and in E. Midlands (Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire). Has decreased elsewhere (almost extin...

Notes

01 August 1944 Comments Notes ON March 26th, 1943, K. Williamson and one of the writers, W.S.C., when engaged on a rookery census were surprised to hear a pair of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) croaking anxiously and flying around Montpelier Wood in the heart of Sully Glen, Isle of Man. De...

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

01 August 1944 Comments Main paper IN view of the present interest in animal fluctuations, a survey has been "made of every bird breeding in the British Isles, to see what proportion of the species have increased, decreased or remained at about the same level during the last one, hundred y...

Reviews

01 June 1944 Comments Reviews Report of the Oxford Ornithological Society on the Birds of Oxfordshire, Berkshire ' and Buckinghamshire, 1942. Edited by B . W. Tucker (University Museum, Oxford). T H I S report, which shows how well t h e society maintains its activity, contains as us...

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Observations on the breeding Birds of Lundy in 1942

Notes

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Notes

Changes in Status among British breeding Birds

Reviews

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