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01 April 1993 Comments Other The grebe in backview (plate 8) was named as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena (39%) Slavonian Grebe P. auritus (36%) Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis (25%) It was a Slavonian Grebe, photographed in Lancashire in March 1990 by Steve Young. Of the l...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 April 1993 Comments Other 'A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was trapped at a locality in southern England on 22nd July 1967 and then retrapped on 9th September; at the request of those concerned, locality and names of observers are being suppressed for the time being. All these r...
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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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