THE JACKDAW 



CORPUS MONEDULA 



LOCAL names in surrounding counties : 



STATUS IN BRITISH AVIFAUNA : A common and widely 

 distributed resident, its numbers increased in autumn by 

 foreign arrivals. 



RADIAL DISTRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 

 PAUL'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 

 of its congeners. The bird resorts to fields and open spaces 

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