Letters

01 February 2000 Comments Letters Syroechkovski et al. (1998) have recently published the results of a study of Brent Geese Branta bernicla in northwest Yakutia, Russia. They claimed to have located a previously unknown contact zone of Dark-bellied Brent Goose Branta (b.) bernicla and ...
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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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