Letters

01 July 2002
Comments Letters Gretton et al. (2002) provided a detailed history of the discovery of the nesting grounds of the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris by V. E. Ushakov, at Tara, in the valley of the Irtysh River, Russia, in or before 1908. This note provides som...
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Letters

01 November 1986
Comments Letters Depths to which auks dive. With reference to the recent note on 'Razorbill [Alca torda] swimming at depth of 140 m' (Brit. Birds 79: 339), I draw attention to a paper published in The Auk last year on 'Diving depths of four alcids' by John F. Piatt and...
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