Letters

01 August 1980
Comments Letters Importance of Ireland's Brent Geese In his account of 'Ireland's winter visitors and passage migrants', C. D. Hutchinson (Brit. Birds 73: 72-80) noted that the Brent Goose Branta bernicla is now the most numerous goose in Ireland and concluded ...
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Letters

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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Notes

01 January 1964
Comments Notes Fulmar incubating eggs of Herring Gull with its own.--On 27th May 1963 I was walking along a cliff top four miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire, when I surprised a Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis off its nest. As it flew, a brown egg rolled out and smashed on t...
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