Identifier: birdsofyorkshire02nels (find matches)
Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Razor-Bill uewly hatched.Sec pngc 709.
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Young Razor-Bill. K. W. Wade. RAZORBILL. yog Matthew Bailey noted some thousands in the chffs, andremarked to me that he had never before known them to be soearly; though a still earlier date is the nth of the samemonth, 1901, when several were seen at Buckton. By mid-August both old and young have left the breedingquarters for the open sea, where they remain until the followingspring ; large numbers of young Razorbills were noticed offthe Humber on 22nd August 1881, and on the 4th of thatmonth in 1884, I saw two young in down off Redcar, probablybirds from the Fame Isles on their way southward. This species is more a wanderer than a regular migrant,though there is a partial migration in autumn, small partiesbeing often observed in October flying to the south-east andpassing for several days continuously; doubtless these areindividuals from more northerly latitudes taking the placeof our Yorkshire birds, which in their turn retire furthersouth. In winter storms the Razorbill is freque

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