An early wild bird marking record

01 July 2019
Comments Letters As noted by, for example, Mead (1974), although formal bird ringing did not begin until the last decade of the nineteenth century, there exists an array of earlier records of the marking, and sometimes later recovery, of wild birds. Ticehurst (1932) wr...
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Letters

01 January 1982
Comments Letters Identification of Shy Albatross The chapter in Frontiers of Bird Identification on albatross identification (Warham et al. 1980) prompts me to record the following. On 26th January 1979, I studied several Shy Albatrosses Diomedea cauta that fle...
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