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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...

Rook numbers in Nottingham over 35 years

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Some obersvations on the repoductive behaviour of Rooks

01 January 1975 Comments Main paper ...

Notes

01 September 1973 Comments Notes Unusual hunting behaviour of Sparrowhawks During February 1972, at Benacre, Suffolk, I spent several hours observing a pair of Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus hunting over a particular field which had been left to seed. This field was the feeding ...

Rook numbers in Nottinghamshire over 35 year

01 September 1971 Comments Main paper frugilegus in Nottinghamshire in 1962 and compares the figures with those from four other censuses in the previous 34 years. The first counts were made by A. Roebuck in 1928 (Roebuck 1933) and again in 1932. There was then a wartime census by A. I. H. Doc...

Notes

01 May 1969 Comments Notes Woodpigeons cooing at night J. N . Tomlinson's note and the accompanying editorial comment (Brit. Birds, 62: 76-77) give the impression that it is exceptional for Woodpigeons Columba palumbus to call at night. In the past 28 years, however, living in thre...

Letters

01 November 1964 Comments Letters SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent orn...

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

01 May 1963 Comments Main paper I T has always been a disputed point as to whether the Rook (Oorvus f. frugihgus) gets its bare " face " by means of abrasion of the feathers or by a moult. Most ornithologists have favoured the moult theory or have regarded it as a " natural peculiarity....

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

01 September 1959 Comments Main paper frugilegus) carried out while I was holding a Nature Conservancy Post-Graduate Studentship at the Edward Grey Institute, Oxford, in 1952 and 1953. All four rookeries concerned were within 10 miles of Oxford and were on rather similar farming land. T h e f...

The Building of A Rookery

01 January 1951 Comments Main paper OGILVIE OBSERVATIONS on Rook (Corvus frugilegus) behaviour during the incubation period and in winter have been recorded in previous issues of British Birds (antm, vol. xl, pp. 135-139, and xlii, pp. 65-68). The notes which follow are based on a study of...

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Fifty years ago

Rook numbers in Nottingham over 35 years

Some obersvations on the repoductive behaviour of Rooks

Notes

Rook numbers in Nottinghamshire over 35 year

Notes

Letters

The Sequence of Plumages of the Rook, With Special Reference to the Moult of the " Face."

The food of nestling Rooks near Oxford

The Building of A Rookery

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