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 May 2000
Comments Letters The dramatic decline in the numbers of House Sparrows Passer domesticus in the centre of London over the past 20 or so years is well documented and generally accepted (Summers-Smith 1999). Indeed, the matter of the decrease has already been raised twic...
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