Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters Changes in Rarities Committee membership On 25 th March 1972 P. A. D. Hollom retired from the Rarities Committee. He had given it 13 years' unstinting service and had been chairman ever since it was set up in 1959; he was also the last of the founder memb...
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Letter

01 August 1982 Comments Letters Tail-wagging by wheatears While the pronounced tail-wagging of the Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellinus is a 'helpful pointer' towards identification (Brit. Birds 74: 443), this habit is also typical of the-- admittedly smaller and daintier...
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