Letters

01 March 1986
Comments Letters 'Pishing' technique. For many years, I have been delighting and often surprising overseas birders visiting North America by enticing numbers of passerines and other landbirds out of dense cover and into view by 'pishing'. Although the technique varies ...
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Letters

01 April 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In his article on the Migration of the Gannet, Dr. Landsborough-Thomson says (antea, p. 288) : " There are many more mid-winter records of first year birds from African than from European waters . . . the figures suggest . . . t h a t those [young ...
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Letters

01 March 1939
Comments Letters SIRS,--In the Handbook of British Birds, Vol. I I . , p . 97, t h e colour of t h e legs of t h e Subalpine Warbler {Sylvia c. cantillans) is given as yellow-brown. As you have (antea, Vol. X X X . , p . 73) appealed for sight observations of the colour o...
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