Letters

01 September 1989 Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...
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Letters

01 July 1986 Comments Letters 'Mystery photographs 92': Franklin's Gull or Laughing Gull? The request to readers for considered opinions about the identity of the mystery gull Larus at Radipole, Dorset, on 13th April 1980, depicted in the July 1984 issue (Brit. Birds 77: plate 112,...
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