Letters

01 July 1985
Comments Letters Origin of British Glaucous Gulls. I read with interest A. R. Dean's comments on the possible origins of Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus in Britain and related incidences of occurrences of hybrid Glaucous X Herring Gulls L. argentatus {Brit. Birds 77: ...
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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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