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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Notes

01 July 1987
Comments Notes Eider with Arctic Tern chick in bill. On 23rd June 1983, on the island of Mousa, Shetland, I was walking through a colony of approximately 230 pairs of ArcticTerns Sterna paradisaea, within which were about 20 nests of Eiders Somateria mollissima. Stan...
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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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Notes

01 January 1948
Comments Notes WITH reference to my note (antea, Vol. xl, p. 209) concerning the large gathering of Ravens (Corvus c. corax) in Carmarthenshire in March, 1946, I was interested to read Mr. Cadman's note which immediately followed my own. In reply to Mr. Cadman's query ...
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