Letters

01 May 2002 Comments Letters The trouble with debates about the identity of potential `firsts' (e.g. Brit. Birds 95: 12-16) is that they may delay the recognition of new species deserving special attention. In July 1989, for example, two dark-rumped storm-petrels caught at Tynemou...
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Letters

01 September 1978 Comments Letters Great Blue and aberrant Grey Herons I was interested to learn of the two observations of melanistic Grey Herons Ardea cinerea (Brit. Birds 70: 76, 345-346), as well as the one seen in the Camargue, France, by Dr J. G. and Dr P. F. Harrison and ...
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