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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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 May 1955 Comments Notes The " Dungeness " ringing pliers.--Designed at Dungeness Bird Observatory to facilitate neat and quick ringing, the pliers shown on plate 31 have met with a good reception by many ringers and it is felt that those who have not yet tried them might be inte...
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