Letters

01 June 2003 Comments Letters In October 2000, the Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) commissioned a consortium (consisting of the BTO, the RSPB/Oxford University Farmland Bird Group, the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) and WildWings Bird Management) ...
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01 May 2000 Comments Letters The dramatic decline in the numbers of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in the centre of London over the past 20 or so years is well documented and generally accepted (Summers-Smith 1999). Indeed, the matter of the decrease has already been raised twic...
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01 April 1965 Comments Letters Manx Shearwaters as prey of Peregrines Sirs,--A recent note by A. J. Gaston (Brit. Birds, 57: 466-467) stated that there did not appear to be any previous record of the Manx Shearwater Procellaria puffinus as prey of the Peregrine Fa/co peregrinus in Brit...
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01 December 1955 Comments Letters Further remarks on discoloration in House Sparrows Sirs,--The observations of C. J. O. Harrison (Brit. Birds, 56: 296-297) on 'industrial' discoloration in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) and other birds prompt us to record information on an allied pro...
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01 September 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Vosges mountains in France during the first World War earthenware pots especially designed for sparrows to nest in were to be seen on the walls of a great many farms and I have no doubt the practice still persists. These served a double purp...
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01 July 1953 Comments Letters SIRS,--At a meeting held in Aberdaron on March 7th, 1953, a committee was formed to establish a permanent observatory on the island of Bardsey. The position of the Island, at the very tip of the Lleyn Peninsula, makes it an ideal site for the study of bir...
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