Letters

01 August 1992 Comments Letters Little Grebe apparently imprinted on female Mallard. With reference to the note on a juvenile Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis apparently imprinted on a female Mallard Anas platyrhynchos [Brit. Birds 82: 116), might it not be that the Mallard h...
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Letters

01 July 1990 Comments Letters Snipe with upturned bill. The recent interesting note by Paul D. Morris (Brit. Birds 83: 117, plate 67) recalls a similar instance, involving an incubating female Snipe Gallinago gallinago with an upcurved bill which I photographed in Cumbria (the...
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