Letters

01 February 1983 Comments Letters Sabine's Gulls in Britain in winter. Recent issues of British Birds have included two references to Sabine's Gulls Larus sabini being recorded in Britain during the winter, from December to March. The first, in 'Recent reports' (Brit. Birds 74: 237), r...
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Letters

01 May 1982 Comments Letters Tail-lengths of Long-eared and Short-eared Owls Would A. H. Davis and Robin Prytherch like to comment on the statement in British Birds 69: 281-287 that the Long-eared Owl Asio otus has a shorter tail than the Short-eared Owl A.flammeus? The me...
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01 February 1945 Comments Letters SIRS,--With reference t o t h e letter from t h e Hon. G. Charteris (antea, p. 120), I can record three definite instances of Chaffinches having second broods. 1. I n 1938 a pair ringed b y me with coloured rings for identification nested in a holly just ...
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01 February 1941 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I t has long been known t h a t there is a remarkable relation between t h e Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) and the common field-vole (Microtus agrestis). The common vole at apparently regular intervals increases in numbers in different loca...
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01 July 1931 Comments Letters C H A F F I N C H E S CAUGHT IN XEST-U1X1XG. To the Editors of BRITISH BiRfls. SIRS,--With reference to the notes on this subject(Vol. XXIV., pp. 103, 125 and 156) Surgeon-Lt.-Cdr. T. H u n t and Surgeon-Lt. F. A. Pearse brought me a hen Chaffinch (Fvingi...
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