Letters

01 May 1980 Comments Letters Judging the size of birds The frequency with which observers claim to have made an accurate assessment of a bird's size, in situations where it is impossible to judge distance, or where there are no other species close by for comparison, lead...
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Letters

01 May 1965 Comments Letters The first nesting of Spur-winged Plovers in Greece Sirs,--In his recent article on the Spur-winged Plover Hoplopterus spinosus {Brit. Birds, 58: 47-51), I. J. Ferguson-Lees stated that the breeding of this species in Europe as a whole and in Greece in par...
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