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Reg I’ve been to Inskip recently, it’s a great place, I understand your passion. However your email is pretty one sided and comes across as sour grapes from someone who didn’t get their own way on a particular campaign. Certainly ‘refusal’ is a strong word to throw around, I wonder what the actual correspondence from … Read more

Hi Tony Some problems with using mtDNA, and the methodology used by Cohen, were picked up in a discussion that stemmed from Cohen’s skua paper that you referenced see Braun & Brumfield, and it would appear the 0.44% divergence does not stand up to scrutiny : http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1689160/pdf/ 9RJY8JW6PRM46DBQ_265_995.pdf Most recently Chu, Eisenschenk & Zhu … Read more

Tony, I suspect the harsh response from Chris was driven by the tone of some emails that stated that because the two forms of Sooty Owl are field diagnosable than they were clearly good species and ergo C&B and the taxonomists are wrong. Apperance is one element that can help you determine whether a group … Read more

There seems to be a lot of emotive language being thrown around about leg flagging, and some pretty strong comments about the damage done to birds by mark-recapture studies. Whilst I have no doubt that the birds are, temporarily, distressed by this the more extreme allegations need to be backed up by some evidence. If … Read more