Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 April 1984 Comments Other 'DOWN Y WOODPECKER (DENDROCOPUS PUBESCENS) IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. On January 14th, 1908, a friend who occasionally shoots birds for me brought me in a little Woodpecker that he had shot that day at Frampton Cotterel, near Bristol. It was climbing up the t...
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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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