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 June 1984 Comments Letters Rook shoots. The comments of farmers regarding the attacks of Rooks Corvus frugilegus on growing corn in spring and ripening corn at harvest-time (National Farmers' Union, quoted in 'News and comment', Brit. Birds 75: 339) are very widely exaggerated u...
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