Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 December 1984
Comments Other 'Firstly, when the bird is hatched, it is either entirely naked or has a DOWN-PLUMAGE. This plumage is succeeded by what we shall term the JUVENILE PLUMAGE. Dr. Dwight has coined the word "Juvenal" to describe this plumage, but this is an "Americanism"...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984
Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of BrĂ¼nnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...
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