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Bean Geese in the Yare Valley, Norfolk

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The only British wintering grounds for Bean Geese Anser fabalis of the western race fabalis to have been permanently occupied for many years lie in the Yare Valley, east Norfolk. The discovery of some individuals carrying coded ...

World status of the Red Kite

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper A background to the experimental reintroduction to England and Scotland In 1989, the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) started a joint experimental programme to re-establi...

Red-necked Grebe breeding in England

01 May 1991 Comments Main paper The Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena occurs widely in the Holarctic, breeding from Sweden, Finland and northern Russia, south into Denmark, Germany, the Balkans and the Ukraine, east to the Kirghiz Steppes, and then (as a much lar...

Mystery photographs

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Notes

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Letters

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A statistical examination of the Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access of the great flood of rarities from east Sussex and west Kent during the first two decades of this century, from the internal evidence presented by the statistical aspects of the records themselves. The consequences of various hypotheses which assume t...

Editorial: Setting the record straight

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access D E P A R T I N G F R O M our normal pattern, we are devoting the whole of this much enlarged issue of British Birds to a single main subject, known already to some, and soon to be familiar to many, as the case of the Hastings Rarities. Half a century ...

The Hastings Rarities

01 August 1962 Comments Open Access CONTENTS Introduction Definition of the Hastings Rarities Peculiarities of the pattern Comparison with current experience Observers and collectors Prices and collections Possibilities of cool deception Publication and correspondenceO F T H E 520 F O E ...

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