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01 March 2003 Comments Editorials The figures for the number of European Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus breeding in the UK, published in the annual report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel for 2000 (Ogilvie et al. 2002), considerably under-reported the number of pairs, especial...

Breeding European Honey-Buzzards in Britain

01 July 1999 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The European Honey-buzzard Pernis apivorus has been one of the least-studied of Britain's breeding birds, because of its limited range, its scarcity and its reputed susceptibility to disturbance. This paper shows, however, that it is far more ...

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...

Mystery photographs: European Honey-buzzard

01 September 1979 Comments Main paper Taking full field notes of an unusual bird is very important; in groups such as the medium-sized and larger raptors, observation should be concentrated on shape, silhouette and flight action as much as plumage pattern, since the latter varies so much i...

Honey Buzzard at wasps' nest

01 February 1979 Comments Main paper Honey Buzzard Pernis apivorus was watched at a nest of a social wasp Vespula at Holkham, Norfolk, from 11th to 16th October 1976. As there appears to be only one account of feeding behaviour in the British literature (Trap-Lind 1962), and this relates ...

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 ...

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...

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....