Letters

01 November 2011 Comments Letters Michael Shrubb's (2011) review of the histor- ical status of the Great Bustard Otis tarda in Britain very much follows our paper (Waters & Waters 2005) and we agree with most of what he writes. His main conclusion, that the Great Bustard did not colonise ...
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Letters

01 August 1985 Comments Letters Distinctive bird names. It was the fine article on 'Canary Islands Stonechat' Saxicola dacotiae (Brit. Birds 77: 467-474) that finally pushed me over the edge into writing this letter. There we had a remarkably excellent article by a well-researched ob...
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