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 August 1996 Comments Letters The recent British Ornithologists' Union conference on 'Feral and introduced birds' prompted Holmes & Stroud (1995) to suggest a possible set of standard terms for describing the status of naturalised birds. Indeed, these terms could equally apply ...
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