If the caption fits . . .

01 May 1990
Comments Editorials This Black-headed Gull Lams ridibundus (plate 125, opposite) was photographed in Suffolk in November 1977 by Terry Bond, who suggested that the bird is saying: 'You wouldn't believe how many people identify me as a Laughing Gull!' Can you think of an e...
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Letters

01 September 1989
Comments Letters The identification of large terns. The paper on the 'Identification of large terns' (Brit. Birds 80: 257-276) gave the impression (fig. 2) that Royal Tern Sterna maxima has an almost blood-red bill, not especially dissimilar from that of Caspian S. cas...
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Letters

01 February 1975
Comments Letters Bill colour of juvenile Arctic Terns Graham Bundy {Brit. Birds, 67: 246-247) stated that the bills of juvenile Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea on their breeding grounds in Shetland have definite red or orange at the base, this being at variance ...
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