Letters

01 April 1993 Comments Letters Tree Swallow records in Britain. Whilst reading the recent report on 'Rare birds in Great Britain' (Brit. Birds 85: 507-554), I was surprised to read, under the 1990 Isles of Scilly record of Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, the comment that it w...
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01 June 1991 Comments Letters Keeping warm. In his useful 'Birdcraft' article on clothing for birdwatchers (Brit. Birds 84: 27-30), Dr M. A. Ogilvie could have given one more useful tip of which a surprisingly large number of birdwatchers are apparently unaware. Most farmworkers, e...
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01 May 1986 Comments Letters 'British Birds' and conservation. In reading through the last four years' back numbers of British Birds I have to praise you for its overall quality, its presentation and the high standard of the articles. Nowhere, however, can I find a major article o...
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01 November 1985 Comments Letters Definition of a birdwatcher. Do other British Birds readers also get branded as bird lovers rather than bird watchers by their non-birder friends? If so, we no longer have any problem in explaining this subtlety. We merely point to the beautifully obje...
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01 July 1984 Comments Letters Wing-span of White Pelican. In Stanley Cramp's 'Studies of West Palearctic birds. 185: White Pelican [Pelecanus onocrotalus]' (Brit. Birds 76: 253-262), I consider a reference to a 'wing-span of up to 360cm' (11 feet 10 inches) somewhat large f...
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01 February 1966 Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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01 January 1955 Comments Letters " A N T I N G " BY B I R D S S I R S , -- T h e announcement by the Editors of British Birds (antea, vol. xlvii, p p . 312-313), based on the work of H . Poulsen, that " a n t i n g " by birds is "quite a u t o m a t i c " and is merely performed to rub o...
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