Letters

01 March 2006 Comments Letters When Garner (2005) reviewed the `Fair Isle sandpiper' (FIS), his reasoning that the bird was not a Western Sandpiper Calidris mauri seemed compelling. It is not possible for statistics to prove that the bird was one species or another, since it deals o...
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Letters

01 May 1992 Comments Letters Yellow-legged Herring Gulls in Essex. The note on yellow-legged Herring Gulls Larus argentatus in Essex in 1973-74 [Brit. Birds 84: 342-343), detailing the increase in southwest Essex, failed to mention the dramatic change in status in Essex since 1980...
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