Letters

01 May 1990 Comments Letters What is Cox's Sandpiper? A critical line of text was dropped by my word-processor prior to the submission to British Birds of the text of my paper on 'The World's first known juvenile Cox's Sandpiper' {Brit. Birds 81: 253-257). Unfortunately, the remai...
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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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