Raptors

by James Macdonald Lockhart

  Ward, Colin – Cottars and Squatters: Housing’s Hidden History (Five Leaves, 2002)

  Wildman, L., O’Toole, L. and Summers, R. W. – ‘The diet and foraging behaviour of the Red Kite in northern Scotland’ (Scottish Birds, 19, no. 3, 134–140, 1998)

  XI Marsh Harrier

  Axell, H. E. – ‘Rare birds: the marsh harrier’ (Bird Life, 7, no. 4, 98–101, 1971)

  Burd, Fiona – Erosion and vegetation change on the saltmarshes of Essex and north Kent between 1973 and 1988 (Nature Conservancy Council, 1992)

  Buxton, Anthony – Fisherman Naturalist (Collins, 1946)

  Chamberlain, Paul – Hell Upon Water: Prisoners of War in Britain, 1793–1815 (The History Press, 2008)

  Clarke, Roger – The Marsh Harrier (Hamlyn, 1995)

  Daly, Augustus A. – The History of the Isle of Sheppey (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1894)

  Gillham, E. H. and Homes, R. C. – The Birds of the North Kent Marshes (Collins, 1950)

  Harrison, Jeffrey – The Nesting Birds of Chetney Marsh (Kent Ornithological Society, 1969)

  — and Grant, Peter – The Thames Transformed: London’s River and its Waterfowl (André Deutsch, 1976)

  Hosking, Eric J. – ‘Some Observations on the Marsh Harrier’ (British Birds, 37, no. 1, 2–9, 1943)

  Nature Conservancy Council – Wildlife Conservation in the North Kent Marshes: A Report of a Working Party (The Nature Conservancy, 1971)

  Oliver, Peter – Bird Watching on the North Kent Marshes (Peter Oliver, 1991)

  Riviere, B. B. – A History of the Birds of Norfolk (H. F. & G. Witherby, 1930)

  Simmons, Robert E. – Harriers of the World: Their Behaviour and Ecology (Oxford University Press, 2000)

  Underhill-Day, J. C. – ‘Population and Breeding Biology of Marsh Harriers in Britain since 1900’ (Journal of Applied Ecology, 21, no. 3, 773–787, 1984)

  — ‘The food of breeding Marsh Harriers (Circus aeruginosus) in East Anglia’ (Bird Study, 32, no. 3, 199–206, 1985)

  Weis, Henning – Life of the Harrier in Denmark (Wheldon & Wesley, 1923)

  XII Honey Buzzard

  Appleby, Ron – European Honey-buzzards (Pernis apivorus) in North Yorkshire: A Breeding History on a Learning Curve: 1895–2010 (Hobby Publications, 2012)

  Bijlsma, R. G. – ‘Impact of severe food scarcity on breeding strategy and breeding success of Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus)’ (De Takkeling, 6, no. 2, 107–118, 1998)

  — ‘Do Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) produce pellets?’ (Limosa, 72, no. 3, 99–103, 1999)

  — ‘Use and function of eyelids in European Honey-buzzards (Pernis apivorus)’ (De Takkeling, 10, no. 2, 117–128, 2002)

  — ‘What is the predation risk for European Honey-buzzards (Pernis apivorus) in Dutch forests inhabited by food-stressed Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis)?’ (De Takkeling, 12, no. 3, 185–197, 2004)

  — and Piersma, T. – ‘Internal organs and gastrointestinal tract of European Honey-buzzards (Pernis apivorus) in comparison with non-insectivorous raptors’ (De Takkeling, 10, no. 3, 214–224, 2002)

  Buxton, Anthony – Sporting Interludes at Geneva (Country Life, 1932)

  Clark, J. M. and Eyre, J. A. (eds) – Birds of Hampshire (Hampshire Ornithological Society, 1993)

  Cobb, F. K. – ‘Honey Buzzard at wasps’ nest’ (British Birds, 72, no. 2, 59–64, 1979)

  Diermen, J. van, Manen, W. van and Baaij, E. – ‘Habitat use, home range and behaviour of Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) tracked on the Veluwe, central Netherlands, by GPS-loggers’ (De Takkeling, 17, no. 2, 109–133, 2009)

  Duff, Daniel G. – ‘Has the plumage of juvenile Honey-buzzard evolved to mimic that of Common Buzzard?’ (British Birds, 99, no. 3, 118–128, 2006)

  Edlin, H. L. – Trees, Woods and Man (Collins, 1970)

  Forestry Commission – Tourism and Recreation Conflicts in the New Forest (Forestry Commission Report, 2004)

  Harrison, J. M. – ‘Food of the Honey-Buzzard (Pernis apivorus apivorus)’ (Ibis, 1, no. 4, 772–773, 1931)

  Heuvelmans, Bernard – On the Track of Unknown Animals (Kegan Paul, 1995)

  Holstein, Vagn – Hvepsevaagen Pernis Apivorus Apivorus (L.) (H. Hirschsprungs Forlag, 1944)

  Irons, Anthony – Breeding of the Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus) in Nottinghamshire (Trent Valley Bird Watchers Nottinghamshire’s Ornithological Society, 1980)

  Koks, B., Straathof, A. and Bijlsma, R. G. – ‘Common Wasps (Vespula vulgaris), insecticides and Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus)’ (De Takkeling, 5, no. 3, 16–19, 1997)

  Kostrzewa, Achim – The Effect of Weather on Density and Reproduction Success in Honey Buzzards (Pernis apivorus) (World Working Group on Birds of Prey and Owls, 1987)

  Lascelles, Gerald – Thirty-Five Years in the New Forest (Edward Arnold, 1915)

  Ogilvie, M. A. – ‘European Honey-buzzards in the UK – correction to breeding totals’ (British Birds, 96, no. 3, 145, 2003)

  Pasmore, Anthony – Verderers of the New Forest: A History of the New Forest 1877–1977 (Pioneer Publications, 1977)

  Rackham, Oliver – Woodlands (Collins, 2010)

  Roberts, S. J. and Lewis, J. M. S. – ‘Observations of European Honey-buzzard breeding density in Britain’ (British Birds, 96, no. 1, 37–39, 2003)

  — and Coleman, M. – ‘Some observations on the diet of European Honey-buzzards in Britain’ (British Birds, 94, no. 9, 433–436, 2001)

  —, Lewis, J. M. S. and Williams, I. T. – ‘Breeding European Honey-Buzzards in Britain’ (British Birds, 92, no. 7, 326–346, 1999)

  Spradbery, J. Philip – Wasps: An Account of the Biology and Natural History of Solitary and Social Wasps with Particular Reference to those of the British Isles (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1973)

  Trap-Lind, Ib – ‘Observations on a Honey Buzzard digging out a wasps’ nest’ (British Birds, 55, no. 1, 36, 1962)

  Tubbs, Colin R. – The New Forest (Collins, 1986)

  White, Gilbert – The Natural History of Selborne (Letter XLIII) (Dent, 1974)

  Wiseman, E. J. – ‘Honey Buzzards in Southern England’ (British Birds, 105, no. 1, 23–28, 2012)

  XIII Hobby

  Ashley, M. – ‘On the Breeding Habits of the Hobby’ (British Birds, 11, no. 9, 194–196, 1918)

  Atherton, Peter F. – ‘Barn Swallow giving specific alarm call for Hobby’ (British Birds, 90, no. 11, 526, 1997)

  Baker, J. A. – The Hill of Summer (Harper & Row, 1969)

  Blomfield, R. M. – Poole: Harbour, Heath and Islands (Regency Press, 1984)

  Chalmers, John – Audubon in Edinburgh and his Scottish Associates (NMS, 2003)

  Chapman, Anthony – The Hobby (Arlequin Press, 1999)

  Clarke, A., Prince, P. A. and Clarke, R. – ‘The energy content of dragonflies (Odonata) in relation to predation by falcons’ (Bird Study, 43, no. 3, 300–304, 1996)

  Davis, Terence – Arne: A Purbeck Parish in Peace and War (Dorset Publishing Company, 2000)

  Dobinson, Colin – Fields of Deception: Britain’s Bombing Decoys of World War II (Methuen, 2000)

  Fenech, Natalino – Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession with Killing Birds (Quiller Press, 1992)

  Forty, George – Frontline Dorset: A County at War 1939–45 (Dorset Books, 1994)

  Fuller, R. J., Baker, J. K., Morgan, R. A., Scroggs, R. and Wright, M. – ‘Breeding populations of the Hobby (Falco Subbuteo) on farmland in the southern Midlands of England’ (Ibis, 127, no. 4, 510–516, 1985)

  Green, George – The Birds of Dorset (Christopher Helm, 2004)

  Insley, Hugh and Holland, Maurice G. – ‘Hobbies feeding on bats, and notes on other prey’ (British Birds, 68, no. 6, 242, 1975)

  Nethersole-Thompson, Desmond – ‘The Field Habits and Nesting of the Hobby’ (British Birds, 25, no. 6, 142–150, 1931)

  Trodd, Paul – ‘Hobbies nesting on pylon’ (British Birds, 86, no. 12, 625, 1993)

  Walpole-Bond, John – Field-Studies of Some Rarer British Birds
(Witherby & Co., 1914)

  Webb, Nigel – Heathlands (Collins, 1986)

  XIV Buzzard

  Baring-Gould, S. – A Book of Dartmoor (Methuen, 1900)

  Burnard, Robert – Plundered Dartmoor (Dartmoor Preservation Association, 1896)

  Christensen, Steen, Nielsen, Bent Pors, Porter, R. F. and Willis, Ian – ‘Flight identification of European raptors’ (British Birds, 64, no. 6, 247–266, 1971)

  Crossing, William – A Hundred Years on Dartmoor (The Western Morning News, 1901)

  — The Teign: From Moor to Sea (Quay Publications, 1986)

  Dare, Peter – The Life of Buzzards (Whittles, 2015)

  English Nature and Dartmoor National Park Authority – The Nature of Dartmoor: A Biodiversity Profile (English Nature, 2001)

  Fryer, G. – ‘Aggressive behaviour by buzzards at nest’ (British Birds, 67, no. 6, 238–239, 1974)

  — ‘Buzzard and crows at Magpie nest’ (British Birds, 79, no. 1, 40–41, 1986)

  Fryer, Geoffrey – ‘Notes on the breeding biology of the Buzzard’ (British Birds, 79, no. 1, 18–28, 1986)

  Harvey, L. A. and St Leger-Gordon, D. – Dartmoor (Fontana, 1974)

  Hemery, Eric – High Dartmoor: Land and People (Robert Hale, 1983)

  Martin, E. W. – Dartmoor (Robert Hale, 1958)

  Moore, N. W. – ‘The Past and Present Status of the Buzzard in the British Isles’ (British Birds, 50, no. 5, 173–197, 1957)

  Picozzi, N. and Weir, D. – ‘Breeding biology of the Buzzard in Speyside’ (British Birds, 67, no. 5, 199–210, 1974)

  — ‘Dispersion of Buzzards in Speyside’ (British Birds, 76, no. 2, 66–78, 1983)

  Prytherch, Robin – ‘The breeding biology of the common buzzard’ (British Birds, 106, no. 5, 264–279, 2013)

  Ryves, B. H. – Bird Life in Cornwall (Collins, 1948)

  Tubbs, Colin R. – The Buzzard (David & Charles, 1974)

  Tubbs, C. R. – ‘Population study of Buzzards in the New Forest during 1962–66’ (British Birds, 60, no. 10, 381–395, 1967)

  Wareing Ormerod, G. – ‘Notes on the Geology of the Valleys of the Upper Parts of the River Teign and its Feeders’ (Proceedings of the Geological Society, November 1867)

  XV Sparrowhawk

  Baker, J. A. – The Hill of Summer (Harper & Row, 1969)

  Barlow, Nora (ed.) – The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Collins, 1958)

  Deane, Ruthven – ‘Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to John James Audubon’ (The Auk, 18, 239–249, 1901)

  Newton, Alfred – A Dictionary of Birds (Adam & Charles Black, 1896)

  Newton, Ian – The Sparrowhawk (T. & A. D. Poyser, 1986)

  Newton, I., Bell, A. A. and Wyllie, I. – ‘Mortality of Sparrowhawks and Kestrels’ (British Birds, 75, no. 5, 195–204, 1982)

  Newton, I., Dale, L. and Rothery, P. – ‘Apparent lack of impact of Sparrowhawks on the breeding densities of some woodland songbirds’ (Bird Study, 44, no. 2, 129–135, 1997)

  Nicholas, W. W. – A Sparrow-hawk’s Eyrie (A. Brown & Sons, 1937)

  Owen, J. H. – ‘Some Breeding-Habits of the Sparrow-Hawk’ (British Birds, 15, no. 4, 74–77, no. 11, 256–263, 1921–22)

  — ‘The Feeding-Habits of the Sparrow-Hawk’ (British Birds, 25, no. 6, 151–155, 1931)

  — ‘The Hunting of the Sparrow-Hawk’ (British Birds, 25, no. 9, 238–243, 1932)

  — ‘The Food of the Sparrow-Hawk’ (British Birds, 26, no. 2, 34–40, 1932)

  Perrins, C. M. and Geer, T. A. – ‘The Effect of Sparrowhawks on Tit Populations’ (Ardea, 68, 133–142, 1980)

  Pounds, Hubert E. – ‘Notes on the Flight of the Sparrow-Hawk’ (British Birds, 30, no. 6, 183–189, 1936)

  Tinbergen, Lukas – ‘De Sperwer als Roofvijand van Zangvogels/The Sparrowhawk as a Predator of Passerine Birds’ (Ardea, 34, 1–213, 1946)

  Yapp, W. B. – Birds and Woods (Oxford University Press, 1962)

  General

  Aberdeen Free Press – ‘In Memoriam. William MacGillivray, M.A., LL.D., Professor of Natural History and Lecturer on Botany, in Marischal College and University, Aberdeen; 1841–1852’ (Aberdeen Free Press, 21 November 1900)

  Audubon, John James – Ornithological Biography, volumes I–V (Adam & Charles Black, 1831–39)

  Balmer, D. E, Gillings, S., Caffrey, B. J., Swann, R. L., Downie, I. S. and Fuller, R. J. – Bird Atlas 2007–11: The breeding and wintering birds of Britain and Ireland (BTO Books, 2013)

  Bannerman, David A. – The Birds of the British Isles, volume V (Oliver & Boyd, 1956)

  Baxter, Evelyn V. and Rintoul, Leonora J. – The Birds of Scotland: Their History, Distribution, and Migration (Oliver and Boyd, 1953)

  Bijleveld, Maarten – Birds of Prey in Europe (Macmillan, 1974)

  Bircham, Peter – A History of Ornithology (Collins, 2007)

  Birkhead, Tim – Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird (Bloomsbury, 2012)

  Broun, Maurice – Hawks Aloft: The Story of Hawk Mountain (Dodd, Mead, 1949)

  Brown, Leslie – British Birds of Prey (Collins, 1976)

  — Birds of Prey: Their Biology and Ecology (Hamlyn, 1976)

  Cade, Tom J. – Falcons of the World (Collins, 1982)

  Campbell, Bruce and Ferguson-Lees, James – A Field Guide to Birds’ Nests (Constable, 1972)

  Chalmers, John – Audubon in Edinburgh and his Scottish Associates (NMS, 2003)

  Cobham, David and Pearson, Bruce – A Sparrowhawk’s Lament: How British Breeding Birds of Prey are Faring (Princeton University Press, 2014)

  Cocker, Mark and Mabey, Richard – Birds Britannica (Chatto & Windus, 2005)

  Corning, Howard (ed.) – Letters of John James Audubon 1826–1840 (The Club of Odd Volumes, 1930)

  Craighead, John J. and Craighead, Frank C. – Hawks, Owls and Wildlife (Dover, 1969)

  Deane, Ruthven – ‘Unpublished Letters of William MacGillivray to John James Audubon’ (The Auk, 18, 239–249, 1901)

  Fairbrother, Nan – New Lives, New Landscapes (Penguin, 1972)

  Ferguson-Lees, James and Christie, David A. – Raptors of the World (Christopher Helm, 2001)

  Frederick II, Emperor – The Art of Falconry being the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus (Oxford University Press, 1955)

  Gordon, Seton – Hill Birds of Scotland (Edward Arnold, 1915)

  — Wild Birds in Britain (Batsford, 1938)

  — In Search of Northern Birds (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941)

  Greenoak, Francesca – British Birds: Their Folklore, Names and Literature (Christopher Helm, 1997)

  Hardey, Jon, Crick, Humphrey Q. P., Wernham, Chris V., Riley, Helen T., Etheridge, Brian and Thompson, Des B. A. – Raptors: A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring (Stationery Office, 2006)

  Harkness, Roger and Murdoch, Colin – Birds of Prey in the Field: A Guide to the British and European Species (Witherby, 1971)

  Harrison, J. C. – Bird Portraits (Country Life, 1949)

  Hart-Davis, Duff – Audubon’s Elephant: The Story of John James Audubon’s Epic Struggle to Publish The Birds of America (Phoenix, 2004)

  Holloway, Simon – The Historical Atlas of Breeding Birds in Britain and Ireland: 1875–1900 (T. & A. D. Poyser, 1996)

  Jonsson, Lars – Birds of Europe with North Africa and the Middle East (Christopher Helm, 1992)

  Lensink, Rob – ‘Range expansion of raptors in Britain and the Netherlands since the 1960s: testing an individual-based diffusion model’ (Journal of Animal Ecology, 66, no. 6, 811–826, 1997)

  MacGillivray, William – ‘Journal of a year’s residence and travels in the Hebrides by William MacGillivray from 3rd August 1817 to 13th August 1818 Vol. I’ (Manuscript, University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 1817–1818)

  — ‘Notes taken in the course of a journey from Aberdeen to London by Braemar, Fortwilliam, Inveraray, Glasgow, Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Keswick, Kendal, Manchester, Derby and Northampton in 1819’ (Manuscript, University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 1819)

&nb
sp; — (trans.) – Elements of Botany and Vegetable Physiology by A. Richard (William Blackwood, 1831)

  — ‘Report on Visit to Museums’ (Manuscript, University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 1833)

  — Lives of the Eminent Zoologists, From Aristotle to Linnaeus (Oliver & Boyd, 1834)

  — (ed.) – The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History, and of the Physical Sciences (The Edinburgh Printing Company, 1835)

  — Descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain (Maclachlan & Stewart, 1836)

  — ‘Autographic Notes Chiefly on British Birds’ (Manuscript, University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 1836–1840)

  — A History of British Birds, Indigenous and Migratory, volumes I–V (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1837–52)

  — A History of British Quadrupeds (W. H. Lizars, 1838)

  — The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt (Harper & Brothers, 1839)

  — A Manual of British Ornithology: Being a Short Description of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Including the Essential Characters of the Species, Genera, Families, and Orders (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1840)

  — A Manual of Botany: Comprising Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology, or the Structure and Functions of Plants (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1840)

  — A Manual of Geology (Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1840)

  — ‘Testimonials in favour of William MacGillivray, A.M.’ (University of Aberdeen Special Collections, 1841)

  — A History of the Molluscous Animals of the Counties of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Banff (Cunningham & Mortimer, 1843)

  — (ed.) – A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by W. Withering (Adam Scott, 1845)

  — (ed.) – The Conchologist’s Text-Book by T. Brown (A. Fullerton, 1845)

  — Manual of British Birds: Including the Essential Characters of the Orders, Families, Genera, and Species (Adam Scott, 1846)

  — The Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar (Private publication, 1855)

  — A Hebridean Naturalist’s Journal 1817–1818 (Acair, 1996)

  — A Walk to London (Acair, 1998)

  MacGillivray, William and Thomson, J. Arthur – Life of William MacGillivray (John Murray, 1910)

  MacGillivray, William – A Memorial Tribute to William MacGillivray (Edinburgh, 1901)