Notes

01 May 1963
Comments Notes FOE some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule) by carrying away the excrement, and often by swallowing ...
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Letters

01 April 1933
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t may be worth recording in connexion with t h e correspondence on this subject (antea, p p . 257-315) t o state t h a t in Wild Exmoor through the Year I reported a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates m. anglicus) drinking and bathing a t ...
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