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Letters

13 March 2014 Comments Letters D o some Wallcreepers migrate? Recent letters by David Elias, H. G. Alexander and Guy Mountfort on the movements of the Wallcreeper Tichodroma muraria referred respectively to observations in Cyprus (Brit. Birds, 63: 393-394) and the Indo-Pakistan subc...

Raptor migration across the Strait of Messina, southern Italy

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The Strait of Messina, at the foot of Italy, is a major migration flyway for many raptors and other species, yet very little has been published on the numbers of birds passing through the area each year.The results of spring counts over the fi...

Looking back

01 April 2001 Comments Other Fifty years ago: `LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACKTAILED GODWITS IN HANTS. – With reference to the note [Brit. Birds 43: 128] on large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) at Poole Harbour, Dorset, in March and April, 1949, Dr. C. Suffern writes t...

Historical and taxonomic review of the Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides complex

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper The Iceland Gull Larus glaucoides is now generally regarded as comprising three subspecies: L. g. glaucoides, which breeds in Greenland, L. g. kumlieni (`Kumlien's Gull'), which breeds mostly on Baffin Island, and L. g. t...

Identification and taxonomy of Marmora's Warblers

01 April 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT A major new book on the warblers of the genus Sylvia (Shirihai et al. 2001) will treat the taxonomy and identification of this intriguing group of passerines in greater depth than has ever been attempted before. Here, we present a sho...