Letters

01 November 1999 Comments Letters Tombeur 's note on a pale Great Skua Catharacta skua in Iceland (Brit. Birds 92: 164-165) requires further comment. Judging by the `normal' bird, it looks to me as though the photographs, as well as one of the birds, are also pale. Allowing for this, I...
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Looking back

01 November 1999 Comments Other `There is a point in connection with the song of birds which I have not seen mentioned, although it must have been noticed by many who are interested in ornithology; it is the differences in the note, or rather the tone of the note, of a bird, in diffe...
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Recovery of Marked Birds

01 July 1935 Comments Main paper No. RT.7932 RT.6704 RV.2460 Cobbinshaw (Midlothian), 2.6.34, f ° r Midlothian Orn. Club. Giggleswick (Yorks.), 14.5.33, by A. H. Eggeling. Skipwith (Yorks.), 13.6.34, for Bootham Sen. Recovered. Kirknewton (Midlothian), 26.3.35, by C. Jarvis. 3 m. awa...
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