Letters

01 August 1983 Comments Letters The origin of 'twitcher'. Richard Porter (Brit. Birds 75: 537) has traced 'twitcher' back to 1968, but what were 'people who chase rare birds' called before that? My recollection is that before the Second World War they were known as 'pot-hunters', and...
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Letters

01 July 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--Records of Scaup (Aythya marila) appearing inland in Yorkshire this winter (1953-54) have been unusually numerous and I should be interested to know if these occurrences have been peculiar to Yorkshire only or whether this species has been recorded...
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