Letters

01 February 1993 Comments Letters The Cape Clear 'Griffons' The difficulty which Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus have in maintaining flapping flight for substantial periods over the sea makes it highly improbable that the five unidentified eagle-like birds observed flying past Cape Clear ...
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Reviews

01 February 1993 Comments Reviews Grouse in Space and Time: the population biology of a managed gamebird. By Peter J. Hudson. Game Conservancy, Fordingbridge, 1992. 63 colour plates; 61 line-drawings. £25.00. Over nine million acres of upland Britain are maintained in a highly ar...
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Reviews

01 July 1991 Comments Reviews Man and Wildfowl. By Janet Kear. T. & A. D. Poyser, London, 1990. 288 pages; 103 black-and-white plates; 65 line-drawings. £17.00. Man has had an involvement with wildfowl since he first collected a few eggs and took them back to his cave ...
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Letters

01 July 1991 Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar We were very interested to read Major W. H. Payn's letter (Brit. Birds 84: 68). The Game Conservancy agrees with him that the release of Chukars Alectoris chukar on shoots in Britain is, in effect, swamping the Red-l...
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