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 May 1978
Comments Letters Field identification of Black-throated Diver in winter Mystery photograph 14 (Brit. Birds 71: 34) was very interesting and instructive. It illustrated clearly the distinctive white thigh patch of Black-throated Diver Gavia arctica, which I have...
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