Letters

01 May 2002
Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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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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