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- go according to prognosis the stressed animals
should "crash" even in unstressed areas +
vice versa.
June 15/53 [1953] [underlined] Fordingbridge [underlined], Hampshire
This morning Ron Yates drove me over to
Slimbridge where I spent an interesting 4 or
5 hours going over the waterfowl collection.
I was particularly taken with the series of
south American geese.
Very little research going on here yet,
finance is the limiting factor.
Research: One graduate student attached to Bristol +
to Oxford has completed his PhD on a
study of comparative preening behaviour of
ducks. He is just now back from the
Farne Islands, where he has spent 4 months
on a study of the reproductive behaviour
of the eider. No territoriality, colonial nesting.
Females do not feed during incubation but drink
fresh water [underlined] every 2 days or so. + are off the
nest then for 15-20 minutes. The mass
courtship pursuit was under water instead
of on the wing - what do the Scoters do?
As the young begin to hatch the [female symbol] begins
active preening + oil distribution to the underparts
at intervals of 2 hrs [hours] or so; it is believed that
the young get oiled in this way. The uropygeal [uropygial]
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