Conservation research news

01 September 2005 Comments News and comment The Fieldfare Turdus pilaris is a familiar and widespread winter visitor to the UK, with around 750,000 birds arriving here in the winter months, but an extremely rare breeding bird. Fewer than 25 pairs breed in the north of Scotland, so the d...
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Notes

01 October 1944 Comments Notes ON April 24th, 1942, near Bow, mid-Devon, Sgt. H. Huggins, R.A.F., found the nest of a Carrion-Crow (Corvus c. coro-ne) containing two young birds just hatched, three eggs just chipping and three which were found to be hard set, evidently about a week fr...
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Letters

01 January 1935 Comments Letters SIRS,--1 read with interest Mr. Rickman's note regarding the nesting oi the Pintail in Dumbartonshire (antea, p, 206). For many years I have kept and bred Pintail at Tullichewan, which is only about two or three miles from the spot where Mr. Rickman found...
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