Letters

01 July 1984 Comments Letters Wing-span of White Pelican. In Stanley Cramp's 'Studies of West Palearctic birds. 185: White Pelican [Pelecanus onocrotalus]' (Brit. Birds 76: 253-262), I consider a reference to a 'wing-span of up to 360cm' (11 feet 10 inches) somewhat large f...
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Letters

01 November 1977 Comments Letters The protected Status of the Goosander In their recent paper (Brit. Birds 70: 229-237), E. R. Meek and B. Little referred incorrectly to the protection afforded to the Goosander Mergus merganser by the 1954-76 Protection of Birds Act. In Scotlan...
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