Letters

01 December 2000 Comments Letters Not all readers may be aware of the high numbers of birds of prey that are kept in captivity and the relatively large numbers of these that subsequently escape into the wild. The recent fashion for keeping and breeding hybrid falcons leads to a high pr...
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Letters

01 June 1933 Comments Letters SIRS,--We would be much obliged if you could give us space in your magazine to ask any of your readers to send us nests of British birds which they may have the chance of obtaining. We are working on the insect fauna of nests and records are required from...
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Letters

01 May 1933 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n June, 1919, I found an undomed nest of a Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus c. collybita) with three young birds in a stunted hawthorn bush growing on a bankside near Wetheral, Cumberland. I t was a n open nest built of grasses and lined with feath...
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