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01 October 1983 Comments Notes Prolonged aerial encounters between Hen Harrier and Goshawk On 17th February 1980, I observed a 'ringtail' (female/immature) Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus flying low over a Yorkshire moorland. I watched it for several minutes, after which it was j...

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01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

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...

The Flocking of immature Herons

01 April 1939 Comments Main paper IT has been suggested to the writer that some notes which he took chiefly in 1935, concerning summer flocking of the Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) should be put on record. They would have been published before, if it had not been intended to collect fur...

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...

The migratory status of the Heron in Great Britain

01 January 1939 Comments Main paper THE Common Heron (Ardea c. cinerea) is a species whose movements within the British Isles are easy to observe, but extraordinarily difficult to interpret. This probably accounts for the great paucity of material available for any attempt to reduce them to...

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

The Flocking of immature Herons

An account of the Lapwing population on a Surrey farm

Report on the Lapwing habitat inquiry, 1937

The migratory status of the Heron in Great Britain

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