Letters

01 August 1995 Comments Letters The female Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater at Jomfruland, Kragero, Telemark, Norway, on 1st June 1987 was not just 'found dead' as stated by McKay (1994). The bird was alive and feeding with Greenfinches Carduelis Moris on the ground in the garden of ...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1985 Comments Main paper Last month's photograph by Richard T. Mills (plate 241, repeated here as 288) is so sharp and evenly lit, and gives such a vivid impression of how the bird must actually have looked, that one is tempted to jump to a rapid conclusion. Other than se...
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