Pine Crossbills (Poyser Monographs)

by Desmond Nethersole-Thompson

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"From mid-January to mid-April 1935 I was off on my dilapidated bicycle, but how different Speyside was from Breckland. In late February many crossbills were still in flocks; I had to walk and cycle for many miles before finding my first nest in the last week of March, when I located a small breeding group in a plantation of old pines close to a keeper's cottage. Thenceforward, until 1942, I followed the crossbills and slowly began to understand a little about them. At first everything was gloriously new. I watched my crossbills mating and discovered how subtly a winter...Read more
  • ISBN10 1282986422
  • ISBN13 9781282986428
  • Publish Date 1 January 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 17 February 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Poyser
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 256
  • Language English