Letters

01 May 1992
Comments Letters Yellow-legged Herring Gulls in Essex. The note on yellow-legged Herring Gulls Larus argentatus in Essex in 1973-74 [Brit. Birds 84: 342-343), detailing the increase in southwest Essex, failed to mention the dramatic change in status in Essex since 1980...
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Letters

01 July 1982
Comments Letters White-headed Duck misidentified as Ruddy Duck I believe that the bird depicted in plate 3 (Brit. Birds 75: 9) is a female White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala and not a female Ruddy Duck O. jamaicensis. We breed these two species here at Arund...
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