Letters

01 February 1999
Comments Letters Although there have been many letters and papers in recent ornithological publications on the status of the Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea in Great Britain, often with reference to the big influx into northwest Europe in 1892, all have missed what c...
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Letters

01 July 1982
Comments Letters White-headed Duck misidentified as Ruddy Duck I believe that the bird depicted in plate 3 (Brit. Birds 75: 9) is a female White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala and not a female Ruddy Duck O. jamaicensis. We breed these two species here at Arund...
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