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Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

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01 May 1939 Comments Notes IN May, 1937, I watched a hen Blackbird (Turdus m. merula) at the weir at Cropston Reservoir, Leicestershire, catching what I took to be minnows, but they may have been sticklebacks. The fish had been stranded in small shallow pools and were swimming abo...

An account of the Lapwing population on a Surrey farm

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper IT may be interesting in connexion with the Report on the Lapwing Habitat Inquiry, which covers a large part of the country during a single year, to see the result of regular observations of Lapwings on one farm during a period of nearly five consecutive ...

Report on the Lapwing habitat inquiry, 1937

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper The Inquiry had the triple aim of indicating factors governing distribution and numbers of the Lapwing {Vanellus vanellus), of developing techniques for habitat study, and of creating a nucleus of trained observers for this branch of field ornithology. F...

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01 August 1933 Comments Notes ELLIOTT'S record (antea, p. 46) of the nesting of Rooks in Lombardy poplars has prompted me to send the following short note. In 1930 and 1931 I made a census of the rookeries near Great Budworth, Cheshire, taking a circle with a radius of 4 ! miles. In ...

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Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

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An account of the Lapwing population on a Surrey farm

Report on the Lapwing habitat inquiry, 1937

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