Letters

01 March 1998 Comments Letters The lead story in November's 'News and comment' on 'Kittiwake versus Great Skua' (Brit. Birds 90: 530) suggested that predation by Great Skuas (Bonxies) Catharacta skua on Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla is a recent phenomenon. Not so! Bonxies killing and ...
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01 December 1995 Comments Letters The theme of the British Ornithologists' Union's 1995 Annual Conference (organised jointly with the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee) was 'Feral and Introduced Birds'. It became apparent from the papers presented at the Conference that a variety ...
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01 December 1988 Comments Letters The identity of 'Mystery photograph 97'. In the light of 25 years' experience in studying Aythya hybrids, I do not consider that the bird in mystery photograph 97 {Brit Birds 77: plate 254; 78: plate 19; 81: plate 343) is a Tufted Duck A. fuligula X Po...
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01 December 1977 Comments Letters Black-headed Gulls foot-paddling on grassland Joh. J. Frieswijk's letter (Brit. Birds 70: 266), recording frequent observations of Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus foot-paddling on grassland in the Netherlands, contrasted with my note drawin...
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01 July 1977 Comments Letters Half a pair of Black-browed Albatrosses In the course of their discussion of proof of breeding (Brit. Birds 69: 277, 457), Bruce Campbell and E. J. M. Buxton omitted to comment on one important consideration: the conservation status of potentia...
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