Letters

01 March 2000 Comments Letters I should like to suggest that the time has now come to review the value of the county bird reports in their present form, since, in principle, they have not changed their format in the last 50 years. The publication of systematic lists ever y year, oft...
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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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