Letters

01 September 2005
Comments Letters It is widely known that information on Honeybuzzards Pernis apivorus in Britain was withheld from both the 1968­72 and the 1988­91 national breeding atlases and, until recently, also from the Rare Breeding Birds Panel (RBBP). Consequently, there ...
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Letters

01 January 1985
Comments Letters How many bird species in the world? In a recent book review (Brit. Birds 77: 280) mention is made of the '8,500-odd species' of birds in the world. A similar figure is quoted by the late Leslie Brown in his foreword to A Complete Checklist of the ...
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