Fifty years ago:

01 November 2005 Comments Other SARDINIAN WARBLER ON LUNDY – An adult male Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) was trapped on Lundy at 0905 hrs G.M.T. on 10th May 1955. After being examined, measured and photographed, it was shown to F. W. Gade and then released about mid...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1995 Comments Other The ninth stage (Brit. Birds 87: plate 178) was correctly identified as a Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus by everyone except a handful of competitors (Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli and Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus were the only ot...
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