Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...
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Notes

01 June 1980 Comments Notes Flight characteristics of Madeiran Petrel Dr M. P. Harris and Dr K. E. L. Simmons (BWP 1: 174-176) regarded the flight action of the Madeiran Petrel Oceanodroma castro as its best field character: 'intermediate between rapid, rather bounding an...
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