Letters

01 January 2010 Comments Letters In 2007, I was surprised to read (in Flood & Thomas 2007, p. 418) that I had seen a dark- rumped Wilson's Storm-petrel Oceanites oceanicus near South Georgia, when what I saw was a bird with markings resembling those of Leach's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma le...
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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 ...
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