Letters

01 December 1976
Comments Letters Migration in the doldrums D. I. M. Wallace expressed an atavistic 'Viewpoint' (Brit. Birds, 68: 202-203) that it was time for 'a resumption of migration studies related to conservation', and suggested setting up a working party to promote it. T...
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Notes

01 March 1976
Comments Notes Feeding behaviour of Buffleheads From late December 1973 to early February 1974, in Florida, USA, I found small parties of Buffleheads Bucephala albeola in markedly different habitats. In the Gulf of Mexico, in deep water, they actively and com...
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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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Notes

01 May 1958
Comments Notes Red-breasted Goose in Sussex.--While watching a flock of 112 White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) on flood water at Amberley, Sussex, on 8th February 1958, one of us (P.R.M.) had a brief view of a Red-breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis) amongst them. The ...
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