Letters

01 March 1998 Comments Letters The lead story in November's 'News and comment' on 'Kittiwake versus Great Skua' (Brit. Birds 90: 530) suggested that predation by Great Skuas (Bonxies) Catharacta skua on Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla is a recent phenomenon. Not so! Bonxies killing and ...
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01 April 1978 Comments Letters Golden Eagle killing red deer calf I am prompted by C. J. Northeast's note (Brit. Birds 71: 36-37) to draw attention to A. Baxter Cooper's excellent first-hand account of an immature Golden Eagle Aquila chrysaetos killing and attempting to lift...
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01 March 1952 Comments Letters SIRS,--We are hoping to collate information about visible migration over, and on the shores of, the Mediterranean. Very little has been published on the subject and no doubt a good many unpublished records, especially those made on voyages, are in existen...
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01 March 1948 Comments Letters SIRS,--In Vol. xl, p. 245, you say t h a t the taking of food from the water b y Carrion Crows (Corvus c. corone) has apparently not been "previously recorded in our ornithological literature." I have recently had occasion t o search t h e literature for ...
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01 March 1946 Comments Letters SIRS,--Witts reference to your comments on t h e note o n . a Robin feeding a fledgling Blackbird (antea, Vol. xxxviii, p, 355), there is anotheroccurrence of a Robin feeding a brood of young Song-Thrushes mentioned, and illustrated, with three photograph...
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01 October 1934 Comments Letters SIRS,--Mr. R. L. Brown, in his interesting notes on the Kingfisher (antea, p. 83), reports a pair of birds having a clutch several days incubated when they had at the same time a brood in an adjacent nest. The experience especially interested me because t...
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