Letters

01 September 1989 Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...
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Letters

01 February 1975 Comments Letters Bill colour of juvenile Arctic Terns Graham Bundy {Brit. Birds, 67: 246-247) stated that the bills of juvenile Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea on their breeding grounds in Shetland have definite red or orange at the base, this being at variance ...
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01 February 1943 Comments Letters SIRS,--As the Statement in The Handbook of British Birds (Vol. III, p. 109) that the Osprey (Pandion h. hali/ztus) last bred at Loch Arkaig in 1902 is incorrect this should be corrected. A pair nested regularly ever since I can remember up to 1908 and the...
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