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01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...

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01 April 1943 Comments Notes MARTINSON of Foresters Lodge, Wolsingham, in the Wear valley, rcports that from January ioth to 28th, 1943, he had under Observation five Two-barred Crossbills (Loxia l. bifasciala). Flocks of the Common Crossbill (Loxia c. curvirostra) have been present...

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01 July 1940 Comments Notes AT a rookery in Surrey, on March 30th, 1940, at 12.5 p.m., Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) were seen to change over at the nest. One bird--obviously a male--flew in and standing on the nest edge fed his plainly visible mate. During the meal wing-action by t...

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

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