Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1985 Comments Other 'FOOD OF THE COMMON HERON, In a note on this subject (antea, p. 85), Dr. C, B. Ticehurst states that he found several shrimps turned quite pink by the digestive process in the stomach of a Heron about a week old," (Brit, Birds $: 153, October 1910)...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1985 Comments Other '. . . we note that Mr Masefield regards ten species as new to the Staffordshire ornis; but the evidence with regard to the Lesser White-fronted Goose and the Sandwich Tern we should regard as necessitating square brackets.' (Brit. Birds 4: 112; Septem...
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