Letters

01 November 2000
Comments Letters In his account of a petrel seen off Ireland in 1974, Jim Enticott (Brit. Birds 92: 504-518) misquoted me in saying `Bourne (Bull. BOC 85: 97-105) proposed treating Soft-plumaged Petrel as three distinct species, Softplumaged Pterodroma mollis, Gon-gon ...
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Letters

01 February 1981
Comments Letters Bill-base feathering and apparent bill thickness of some waders Many observers have in the past attempted to support the identification of suspected rare species, especially stints and peeps Calidris, by noting the thickness of the base of...
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