THE JACKDAW 
CORVUS MONEDULA 
Loca names in surrounding counties : 
Status 1N British Avirauna: A common and widely 
distributed resident, its numbers increased in autumn by 
foreign arrivals. 
Rapiat DistrRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paui’s: The Jackdaw is another tolerably familiar bird 
within the more central portions of the Metropolitan 
area, becoming more numerous and widely dispersed, of 
course, in the outlying and rural districts. ‘The bird 
breeds in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens ; may be 
frequently seen in St. James’s Park, the Green Park, and 
in some of the more central squares, the Inns, and the 
Temple Gardens. It visits Battersea Park, Clapham 
Common, Peckham Rye, Regent’s Park, and other similar 
open spaces, and probably breeds in all suitable spots from 
the six-mile radius to the most outermost limits. It is 
found breeding in many places where old timber furnishes 
the requisite nesting-holes, but also resorts to buildings ; 
Epping and Richmond Park are good examples of the 
former, the towers of various churches and holes and 
chimneys in large houses of the latter. Like the Rook the 
Jackdaw varies in numbers a good deal in the more central 
districts, where the two species usually consort with each 
other. Just beyond our limits Windsor Castle and Eton 
College are famous resorts of the Jackdaw ; as is Harrow 
within them. 
The Jackdaw is another eminently gregarious species, 
living in colonies like the Rook, although in some cases 
conditions are such that it can only breed in more or less 
scattered pairs, especially in many parts of London where 
suitable sites are few. Its habits are very similar to those 
ofits congeners. ‘The bird resorts to fields and open spaces 
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