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The correct gender of poecile and the scientific name of the Willow Tit

02 November 2011 Comments Letters Recently, there has been a debate in some areas - notably David & Gosselin (2008), but also on certain internet forums - about the scientific name of the Willow Tit Poecile montana - and whether the masculine form of the species name, mon...

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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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01 March 2005 Comments Letters Recent letters to British Birds question whether there has, in fact, been a real increase in breeding Honey-buzzards Pernis apivorus in Britain (Wiseman 2004), and suggest that the present population is `not certainly more than 30-50 pairs' (Mummery et...

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The correct gender of poecile and the scientific name of the Willow Tit

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