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 July 1991
Comments Letters The introduction of the Chukar We were very interested to read Major W. H. Payn's letter (Brit. Birds 84: 68). The Game Conservancy agrees with him that the release of Chukars Alectoris chukar on shoots in Britain is, in effect, swamping the Red-l...
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