Letters

01 June 1984 Comments Letters Rook shoots. The comments of farmers regarding the attacks of Rooks Corvus frugilegus on growing corn in spring and ripening corn at harvest-time (National Farmers' Union, quoted in 'News and comment', Brit. Birds 75: 339) are very widely exaggerated u...
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Letters

01 August 1983 Comments Letters The origin of 'twitcher'. Richard Porter (Brit. Birds 75: 537) has traced 'twitcher' back to 1968, but what were 'people who chase rare birds' called before that? My recollection is that before the Second World War they were known as 'pot-hunters', and...
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