Letters

01 March 2006
Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...
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Letters

01 March 1976
Comments Letters Lanceolated Warblers and vagrancy patterns Commenting on the records of Lanceolated Warblers Locustella lanceolata at Fair Isle (Shetland) on 22nd September 1973 and Out Skerries (also Shetland) on the same date, following one on Fair Isle on i...
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