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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Letters

01 April 1978 Comments Letters Golden Eagle killing red deer calf I am prompted by C. J. Northeast's note (Brit. Birds 71: 36-37) to draw attention to A. Baxter Cooper's excellent first-hand account of an immature Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos killing and attempting to lift...
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Reviews

01 August 1969 Comments Reviews A Regional Guide to the Birds of Scotland. By W. Kenneth Richmond. Constable, London, 1968. 252 p a g e s ; frontispiece and 54 black-and-white photographic plates; 15 maps. 25s. Mr Richmond's Regional Guide will by now have been bought by many people and...
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Reviews

01 February 1966 Comments Reviews Fait Isle and its Birds. By Kenneth Williamson. With 'A List of the Birds of Fair Isle' by Peter Davis. Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1965. xvi+311 pages; 27 photographs (16 plates); 17 text-figures and maps. 30s. Over 60 years ago Dr. William Eagl...
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