Letters

01 February 2001
Comments Letters Although the concluding remarks of Vinicombe & Harrop's paper (Brit. Birds 92: 225255) were somewhat contradictory, it is now received wisdom that an influx of wild Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurred in northern and southwestern Britain in...
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Letters

01 April 1951
Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. K. E. L. Simmons's letter (antea, p. 40) on this subject draws attention to reactions in trapped birds intermediate between remaining immobile on the open hand and the extreme, trance-like "death feigning". A further case may be of interest. On...
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