Letters

01 February 2010
Comments Letters The recent paper by Richard Broughton (Brit. Birds 102: 604-616) summarised a welcome analysis of the relative importance of the various criteria used to separate Willow Poecile montana and Marsh Tits P. palustris. We consider, however, that the con- clus...
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Letters

01 November 1990
Comments Letters Sexual dimorphism of Marsh Tit. Both Gosler & King (1989) and Nilsson & Smith (1988) have recently reported sexual dimorphism in the intensity of the black of the cap on Marsh Tits Parus palustris (adults and first-years), males having markedly...
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Fifty years agoÉ

01 April 1981
Comments Main paper 'FIELD-REFLECTIONS ON THE NESTING, SONGS AND CRIES OF THE BRITISH MARSH- AND WILLOW-TITMICE . . . The "Willow's" utterances are utterly unlike those of its cousin . . . to me at any rate, it resembles a cross between the jug of the Nightingale and the ...
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Notes

01 May 1980
Comments Notes Bulwer's Petrel in Co. Cork On 3rd August 1975, during an evening seawatch in light mist from Blananarragaun, Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork, I and several other observers, including I. Burrows, P. Campbell and S. Yeo, noticed an unfamiliar seabir...
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