Letters

13 March 2014
Comments Letters Woodcock and thrushes breeding in open and Snipe a m o n g trees In view of recent notes on Woodcock Scolopax rusticola nesting away from trees (Brit. Birds, 64: 76; 65: 30-31), it may be worth recording that at dusk on 5 th July 1971, when I walked ac...
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Letters

01 February 1968
Comments Letters Width of tail-band of immature Mediterranean Gulls Sirs,--As the plumage of immature Mediterranean Gulls Larus melanocephalus was described in some detail by P. J. Grant and R. E. Scott (Brit. Birds, 60: 365-368), it seems a pity that they did not mention...
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Letters

01 February 1966
Comments Letters Puffinosis among Manx Shearwaters Sirs,--In his paper describing the virus disease, puffinosis, among Manx Shearwaters Procellaria puffinus on Skokholm, Pembrokeshire (Brit. Birds, 58: 426-434), Dr. M. P. Harris discusses the epizootics of 1962, 1963 and ...
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