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 February 1991 Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar In 'Points of view' (Brit. Birds 79: 656-657), Derek Goodwin drew attention to the dilution of the British population of the Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa by hybrids between this and other species of Alectoris. In h...
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