Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1991
Comments Other NEARLY every recent book on British birds mentions Wiltshire as one of the counties in which the Common Curlew (Numenius arquata) breeds, but I am of opinion that this is one of those errors which get copied from one work to another. I know no part of ...
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Monthly marathon

01 July 1991
Comments Other The bird flying towards us (plate 110)--not a view we often get--was named as 32 different species: Osprey Pandion haliaetus (32%) Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata (10%) Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola (8%) Grey Heron Ardea cinerea (7%) Whi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1988
Comments Other 'The inclusion of Barrow's Goldeneye as a British species has recently been shown to be entirely unwarranted and this is mentioned by Mr. Millais in a footnote added while his work was "in the press." We must take exception, too, to the inclusion of Ba...
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