Letters

01 May 2002 Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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Letters

01 September 1999 Comments Letters THE KAZAKH `MYSTERY WARBLERS' ONCE AGAIN During a field trip to Kazakhstan in May 1998, T. Dolan, A. Knystautas, A. Lassey, J. M. Pearson, A. Pivovarov, D. I. M. Wallace and I visited the very same `dried wadi on the rolling steppe at Sobhiika', about ...
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