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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 August 1940 Comments Notes ON June 4th, 1940, on a common in Cheshire I found a nest of a Tree-Pipit (Anthus t. trivialis) with recently hatched young. The parent bird sat very close after going down with food, whilst I was searching for the nest; when it left the nest it fluttere...

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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01 July 1933 Comments Notes WITH but the following exception I cannot personally call to mind the Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) selecting this tree for nesting purposes. Last year several nests were built in a row of these spire-shaped trees at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, and...

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

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