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01 October 2000 Comments Other ugust's photograph (plate 228, repeated here as plate 300) clearly shows a passerine and, from its location and stance, most observers probably immediately thought `bunting or finch', these families containing the contrastingly patterned species typica...
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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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