Letters

01 May 1996 Comments Letters In October 'News and comment' (Brit. Birds 88: 489), Shelley Hinsley's letter in the New Scientist about feeding peanuts in the summer was quoted. Readers may feel that this reference indicated the wholesale death of nestling tits Parus nationwide thro...
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Letters

01 May 1988 Comments Letters Are we getting our figures right? The BTO may well tell me that it is extremely naughty of me to turn their population estimates of winter thrushes Turdus (by D. W. Snow, in Lack 1986) into the rounded ratio of: Blackbird T. merula 28: Song Thrush T. p...
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