Letters

01 August 2002 Comments Letters As co-author of the paper `Ruddy Shelducks in Britain and Ireland, 1986-94' (Vinicombe & Harrop 1999), I was interested to read Andrew Harrop's recent paper `The Ruddy Shelduck in Britain' (Harrop 2002). Most of his paper, written on behalf of the ...
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01 December 2001 Comments Letters When watching House Martins Delichon urbica in 1967, I wrote in my notebook: `Is the mud for the structure of their nests carried on, rather than in, their beaks?'. My impression then was that the birds carried up the mud on the beak, and pressed it in...
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01 February 2001 Comments Letters Although the concluding remarks of Vinicombe & Harrop's paper (Brit. Birds 92: 225255) were somewhat contradictory, it is now received wisdom that an influx of wild Ruddy Shelducks Tadorna ferruginea occurred in northern and southwestern Britain in...
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01 March 2000 Comments Letters I should like to suggest that the time has now come to review the value of the county bird reports in their present form, since, in principle, they have not changed their format in the last 50 years. The publication of systematic lists ever y year, oft...
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01 July 1977 Comments Letters Half a pair of Black-browed Albatrosses In the course of their discussion of proof of breeding (Brit. Birds 69: 277, 457), Bruce Campbell and E. J. M. Buxton omitted to comment on one important consideration: the conservation status of potentia...
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01 December 1975 Comments Letters The origin of British Aquatic Warblers In his letter (Brit. Birds, 67: 443-444), Dr J. T. R. Sharrock made the hypothesis that the autumn records of Acrocephalus paludicola in Britain and Ireland are probably to be explained by a reverse migrat...
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01 December 1974 Comments Letters Eye colour of the Hen Harrier D. I. M. Wallace's remarks (Brit. Birds, 65:358-359) on the eye colour of an immature of the American subspecies of the Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus hudsonius at Cley, Norfolk (see Brit. Birds, 64: 537-542), were confusing a...
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01 May 1962 Comments Letters Ringed birds in snow Sirs,--During the snowy period of early January 1962, in my garden sanctuary near Welwyn, Hertfordshire, I saw two ringed birds, a Blue Tit (Pants caerukus) and a Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus), with their rings thickly coated ...
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