Letters

01 October 1977
Comments Letters Field guides and the appreciation of birds It is always good to find credit given where it is due. Hence I was glad to see Bruce Campbell's suggestion (Brit. Birds 70: 172) that W. B. Alexander's Birds of the Ocean (ig28) was probably the first...
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Letters

01 April 1966
Comments Letters The spread of potato-eating i n Whooper Swans Sirs,--A tendency for flocks of up to 40 Whooper Swans Cygnus cygnus to feed inland is well attested in early European literature; and in Scotland these swans, like geese, occasionally fly some miles from wate...
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