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Distribution of the Nightingale

Nature volume 69, page 512 (1904)Cite this article

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THE fact that the distribution of the nightingale is restricted to the drier parts of these islands is well known, but the causes of this are obscure. If an excessive amount of rain be one of them, it is probable that last summer would have had the effect of reducing the number of young birds, and consequently of the immigrants of this spring. I should therefore be much obliged to any of your readers who live in a nightingale country if they will inform me towards May 1 whether they observe any difference in the number of these birds.

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WALKER, A. Distribution of the Nightingale. Nature 69, 512 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069512d0

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