Letters

01 December 2001 Comments Letters When watching House Martins Delichon urbica in 1967, I wrote in my notebook: `Is the mud for the structure of their nests carried on, rather than in, their beaks?'. My impression then was that the birds carried up the mud on the beak, and pressed it in...
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Letters

01 January 1967 Comments Letters 'Meat or sickly sweets' Sirs,--I entirely disagree with Philip S. Redman (Brk. Birds, 59: 390). It seems to me that a really comprehensive interest in ornithology must extend beyond the birds to those who have made outstanding contributions to our knowled...
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