Fifty years ago

01 February 1981 Comments Other 'At three o'clock the following morning as I dozed with the lobster fishermen in their small bothy I was awakened by the fluttering of wings on my arm and head and found a StormPetrel, apparently dazzled by the candle, moving about my person.' SETON GO...
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Fifty years ago

01 January 1980 Comments Other 'ON THE BREEDING-HABITS OF THE MANX SHEARWATER, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS INCUBATION- AND FLEDGING-PERIODS. By R. M. Lockley. It was with the main object ofdiscovering the incubation- and fledging-periods that I marked a number of nests of the Manx...
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