Letter

01 August 2008 Comments Letters It is now over a decade since the first of three recent controversial large skuas turned up in Britain, and the debate on their identity continues to ebb and flow. Jiguet (2007) was among the more recent to discuss the three birds –­ in Dorset, in J...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2004 Comments Other Photo no. 203 (plate 77) shows three falcons gathered at the entrance to what is obviously a nest-site. Most birders will immediately recognise these birds as kestrels and, with just two species breeding within the Western Palearctic, the choice lies b...
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Letters

01 March 1995 Comments Letters I was fascinated to read the reference, in the item on 'Identification by taste', to my great-grandfather, John Cordeaux (Brit. Birds 87: 447). I looked up his last publication, a revised list of British Birds belonging to the Humber District (1899), a...
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