Letters

01 September 1991
Comments Letters Roosting behaviour of seabirds. It is human nature to avoid raising even obvious questions when no answer appears to be in sight. I nevertheless raise such a question here. Birds of the open ocean, far from land, must not only roost but also sleep on t...
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Letters

01 September 1970
Comments Letters Melanistic White-fronted Geese Further to my note on melanistic European White-fronted Geese Anser albifrons albifrons (Brit. Birds, 63: 131), Eckhart Kuyken has drawn my attention to his recent paper on melanism, albinism and other plumage variants in wi...
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Letters

01 June 1969
Comments Letters Bill-length as a field-character of the White-winged Black Tern ? In his paper on 'Juvenile and winter plumages of the marsh terns' (Brit. Birds, 53: 243-252) Kenneth Williamson differentiated without qualification between the bill of the Black Tern Chlid...
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Notes

01 May 1943
Comments Notes 1942 I had excellent opportunities of observing the birds which frequent the southern shores of Ayr Bay, between the mouth of the river Doon and the Heads of Ayr. As a result I have been able to add three new birds to the Ayrshire list, and I include one...
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