J. Young

Articles by this author

J. Young and K. Bruce

Cannon-Nets; Their Use to capture birds during Migration Studies on the Solway Firth, Scotland

Zoology, Ornithology, Geography

TDGNHAS Series III, 76 (2002), 9(1.97 MB)

Abstract

A history of the development of cannon-netting as a procedure to capture and ring birds as a part of migration studies on the Solway Firth. The equipment developed is described in in detail and the the paper is supplemented by statistics of birds captured

H. Boyd and J. Young

Measurements of Geese by R A H Combes: relationships between mass and body size of pink-footed and greylag geese

Zoology, Ornithology

TDGNHAS Series III, 77 (2003), 1(1.68 MB)

Abstract

Linear measurements and masses of over 700 geese, most shot around the Solway Firth in 1938-1960, provide scare information on total length and wing span and identify some differences in mass and in linear measurements from those reported elsewhere. The s

J. Young

The Former Use of Flight-Nets to Capture Wildfowl on the Inner Solway

Ornithology, Recent (Social), Recent

TDGNHAS Series III, 80 (2006), 1(3.8 MB)

Abstract

Throughout the latter part of the 19th century, while shooting was widespread, ‘flightnetting’ emerged as an alternative method of obtaining wildfowl and waders for the table, barter or the market. Netting was practised intensively only on the north shore

J. Young

Extracts from the Notebook of the late James H Wilson: A Glencaple Wildfowler 1872-1947

Zoology, Ornithology

TDGNHAS Series III, 82 (2008), 31(2.63 MB)

Abstract

Extracts from the ornithological and wild-fowling notebook of James H Wilson a Glencaple Wildfowler 1872-1947. Full species records are provided as also records of communications with noted ornithologists of the period such as Sir Hugh Gladstone, Sir Pete