Comments on 'The Chalice Petrel'

01 August 1997
Comments Main paper These comments are supported by personal at-sea experience with all species under consideration, albeit some more familiar to me than others (e.g. thousands of Black and Markham's Storm-petrels, as against only one Tristram's and about 20-30 Matsudaira...
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Mystery Photographs

01 August 1997
Comments Main paper Within the Western Palearctic, European Bee-eater Merops apiaster breeds widely over a significant part of northwest Africa, across much of southern Europe from Portugal to Turkey and throughout a vast area in the east of the region, while Blue-cheeked...
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The Chalice Petrel' Revisited

01 August 1997
Comments Main paper In light of the captures of Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis in the Western Palearctic (Bretagnolle et al. 1991; Cubitt et al. 1992; King & Minguez 1994), it was thought unlikely that there could be more than one dark-rumped Oceanodroma ...
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