Letters

01 February 1999 Comments Letters Although there have been many letters and papers in recent ornithological publications on the status of the Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea in Great Britain, often with reference to the big influx into northwest Europe in 1892, all have missed what c...
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Letters

01 September 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...
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