Letter

01 February 2003 Comments Letters It seems to be conventional wisdom that the Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris `has a remarkable capacity for vagrancy' (Steele & Vangeluwe 2002), which is supported by the very wide spread of records in Europe listed in Adam Gretton's mon...
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Letters

01 September 2002 Comments Letters While it came as no great surprise to the observers of the `Dungeness petrel' (Brit. Birds 95: 156-165) that the record was rejected, this feeling merely reflects what we take to be a widespread view among observers: that the BBRC finds it very difficu...
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Letters

01 March 2001 Comments Letters I was not terribly reassured by any of the comments of Mark Avery (Brit Birds 93: 500) in reply to my criticism of the pilot Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis cull and the rationale behind it (93: 394-396). Rather disturbingly, the RSPB's Director of Conse...
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Letters

01 October 2000 Comments Letters The RSPB agrees with Bernard Zonfrillo (Brit. Birds 93: 394-396) that the world is not ideal, but believes that some of his other comments are misplaced. Globally, introductions are a major cause of biodiversity loss (Vitousek et al. 1997) and pose a s...
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