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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of their former homes, and often remain until thenesting season. In the north-west of the county, near the Lancashire border,an attempt was made, about the year i860, to form a Gullery ;several birds built on the edge of a tarn on Newton fell, theirefforts, however, were frustrated by robbery of the eggs byfarm-hands, and the birds left. Other attempts at nesting,made in 1881-2 in the Aire Valley outside Leeds, were renderedfutile by the eggs being stolen as soon as they were laid ;these birds have lately become very numerous in the upperreaches of the Aire since the formation of so many sewagefarms between Skipton and Bingley. Between 1893 and1903 a considerable number bred on Keighley Moor Dam ;on one occasion twenty-three nests were counted, but theeggs were all taken and the birds abandoned the place. Astatement recording the discovery of an unfledged young one,on 27th July 1900, on Clough Hey Reservoir, Keighley moor,appears in the Naturalist (1900, p. 304), and in the year 1904
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Mediterranean Black-headed Gull. See page 675. BLACK-HEADED GULL. 673 a large colony of between twenty and thirty pairs was inexistence in a locality protected from molestation. In Swaledale a small community, composed of four nestingpairs, was in existence at Summer Lodge Tarn until 1865,and a few pairs also bred at Punchard Head in Arkengarth-dale ; this latter station is probably the one referred to in theZoologist (1884, p. 139), under the impression that the birdswere Common Gulls, and corrected in the same volume (p. 196),the recorder stating that the birds were doubtless Black-headed Gulls. Another small colony of about a dozen pairswas on Semer Water in Yoredale until about 1897, though,unless protection is afforded them, it is probable that repeatedrobbery will cause the birds to abandon it as a nesting resort. Of Yorkshire Gulleries now in occupation, besides that onSkip with Common, there is one at Locker Tarn in Wensleydale,which was founded about 1888, when a single pair

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