Letters

01 October 1983
Comments Letters The Northumberland Aleutian Tern I should like to comment on the remarkable record of an Aleutian Tern Sterna aleutica in Northumberland (Dixey et al. 1981). The distinctive polysyllabic call noted is the basis of some Alaskan Eskimo names for ...
Read More

Letters

01 July 1980
Comments Letters Terns perching on wire I do not think that wire-perching by terns (Brit. Birds 70: 545-546; 72: 343-344) is all that unusual, despite poor documentation in the literature. Indeed, I suspect that the habit is locally quite common, especially on ...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now