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Mystery photographs

01 April 1988 Comments Main paper A quick glance at the distinctive bill-shape and long, pointed wings of last month's mystery bird (plate 73, repeated here as plate 89) is sufficient to identify it as a shearwater. The astute reader, confident in our sense of fair play, would have imm...

Letters

01 December 1976 Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...

Effects of sea conditions on rates at which Guillemots feed chicks

01 December 1976 Comments Main paper Studies of the effects of sea and weather conditions on the ability of seabirds to capture prey have almost all concerned those species that Ashmole (1971) classed as 'surface-plunging', for example terns (Sterninae). There is little information for th...

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Effects of sea conditions on rates at which Guillemots feed chicks

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