SIRS,--It would be interesting to know if the reports published in the popular Press earlier this year stating that large numbers of Rooks were making daily incursions to the Romney Marshes from the French coast, have ever been verified by a competent ornithologist. Unless rookeries in N.E. France have greatly increased in number and size since the first world war I think little credence can be gi...

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