Bird Life in a Southern County Being Eight Yearss Gleanings Among the Birds of
Bird Life in a Southern County Being Eight Yearss Gleanings Among the Birds of
Charles Dixon
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It is a summer migrant, arriving in Devonshire at the end of April or the beginning of May, and leaving us again in September. One or two pairs breed regularly in our immediate neighbourhood ; whilst during the migration period we occasionally see or hear others that are merely passing over the district. Its well-known and easily recognised call-note may be most frequently heard from well-timbered pleasure-grounds and woods in which there is a dense undergrowth. It may be of interest to remark ...that we caught an example of the Collared Turtle Dove (Turtur risorius) last spring (1898). We kept it for a month, until it had nearly completed its moult, and then it managed to escape. Whether this individual was an escaped bird, or one that had possibly been bred in some of the woods near Plymouth (vide Zoologist, 1877, p. 493), we are unable to say. 164 BIRD-LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. Other woodland birds that interest us consider- ably are the Woodpeckers. All the indigenous British species are resident in the county, but the Black and White Woodpeckers are much rarer and more local than the Green Woodpecker.
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