Letters

01 September 1996 Comments Letters The comments under the title 'Of partridges, pheasants and White-headed Ducks' (Brit. Birds 89: 241) are, I submit, not worthy of your excellent magazine. Although the opinions are 'not necessarily those of "British Birds'", the complete lack of docume...
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Letters

01 July 1991 Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar We were very interested to read Major W. H. Payn's letter (Brit. Birds 84: 68). The Game Conservancy agrees with him that the release of Chukars Alectoris chukar on shoots in Britain is, in effect, swamping the Red-l...
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Letters

01 June 1985 Comments Letters Bill coloration of treecreepers. The note by Laurel Tucker (Brit. Birds 77: 263-264) questions if the upper mandible coloration could assist in the field separation of the two European treecreepers Certhia. Photographs, in Vara Figlar i Norden (1942) b...
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Letters

01 April 1984 Comments Letters Another armchair-tick for a lucky few? The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (1980) has already assigned full species status to the two forms of Lesser Golden Plover Pluvialis (d.) dominica and P. (d.) fulva, based primarily on moult sche...
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