Letters

01 May 2002
Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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Letter

01 February 1941
Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...
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