Letter

01 February 2003
Comments Letters It seems to be conventional wisdom that the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris `has a remarkable capacity for vagrancy' (Steele & Vangeluwe 2002), which is supported by the very wide spread of records in Europe listed in Adam Gretton's mon...
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Letters

01 September 2002
Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...
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Letters

01 August 2002
Comments Letters As co-author of the paper `Ruddy Shelducks in Britain and Ireland, 1986-94' (Vinicombe & Harrop 1999), I was interested to read Andrew Harrop's recent paper `The Ruddy Shelduck in Britain' (Harrop 2002). Most of his paper, written on behalf of the ...
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Letters

01 February 2001
Comments Letters Although the concluding remarks of Vinicombe & Harrop's paper (Brit. Birds 92: 225255) were somewhat contradictory, it is now received wisdom that an influx of wild Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurred in northern and southwestern Britain in...
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Letters

01 March 2000
Comments Letters I should like to suggest that the time has now come to review the value of the county bird reports in their present form, since, in principle, they have not changed their format in the last 50 years. The publication of systematic lists ever y year, oft...
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