Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1983 Comments Other 'AN invasion of Pallas's Sand-Grouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) into this country was not unexpected since the bird appeared numerously in European Russia in the latter half of April, and has been reported from several parts of Germany . . . The following ...
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Fifty Years ago

01 December 1979 Comments Other 'Finding that there was no authentic record of the Pintail ever having nested, in the wild state, in England, we realised that very much more evidence was needed . . . Miss E. L, Turner, Dr. B. B. Riviere, Mr. T. A. Coward, and Canon Raven, amongst oth...
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