Letters

01 February 1995 Comments Letters Bernard Zonfrillo (1994) did well to remind us of the anniversary of the extinction of the Great Auk Pinguinns impennis. I have visited many of the world's museums and have examined specimens of the Great Auk and other extinct species, and just handlin...
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01 April 1979 Comments Letters Birds dunking food There are many references in the literature to birds washing food; they cover about six families and almost all are for water birds. Although termed 'food washing', the behaviour described may fulfil several functions. During...
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Letters

01 April 1975 Comments Letters Effects of agricultural change on birds I have found the correspondence between Derek Barber, and Dr R. K. Murton and N. J. Westwood {Brit. Birds, 67: 395-396, 485-487), of considerable interest, for I strongly suspect that hedgerows have,...
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Letters

01 March 1971 Comments Letters Future 'British and Irish Lists' At a national conference of regional and local bird report editors in September 1967, arranged by the Report Editors' Committee of the British Trust for Ornithology, a resolution was passed deploring the multiplicity of li...
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