Letters

01 March 2001 Comments Letters I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
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Letters

01 December 1954 Comments Letters SIRS,--In his paper on "The snail-eating behaviour of Thrushes and Blackbirds" (antea, p. 38) D. Morris states that "the snail-shell is held by the rim of its aperture," but I do not think that he can be right. If a bird holds the shell by its rim alone i...
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