An early wild bird marking record

01 July 2019
Comments Letters As noted by, for example, Mead (1974), although formal bird ringing did not begin until the last decade of the nineteenth century, there exists an array of earlier records of the marking, and sometimes later recovery, of wild birds. Ticehurst (1932) wr...
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Letters

01 February 1991
Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar In 'Points of view' (Brit. Birds 79: 656-657), Derek Goodwin drew attention to the dilution of the British population of the Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa by hybrids between this and other species of Alectoris. In h...
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