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 1980
Comments Letters Judging the size of birds The frequency with which observers claim to have made an accurate assessment of a bird's size, in situations where it is impossible to judge distance, or where there are no other species close by for comparison, lead...
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