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 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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