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 January 1982 Comments Letters Identification of Shy Albatross The chapter in Frontiers of Bird Identification on albatross identification (Warham et al. 1980) prompts me to record the following. On 26th January 1979, I studied several Shy Albatrosses Diomedea cauta that fle...
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