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Rooks Building at Christmas

Nature volume 15, page 217 (1877)Cite this article

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ON Christmas morning I saw a few rooks engaged in building in a clump of elms near my house. Four nests are now in progress, though the gale of December 30 made the rooks desist from their work. During the ten years (about) that I have watched their proceedings, I think I have never seen these birds begin building till February.

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INGLEBY, C. Rooks Building at Christmas. Nature 15, 217 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015217d0

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