Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1990 Comments Other 'ABUNDANCE OF LAND-RAILS IN EAST SUSSEX. NOT for many years past have there been so many Land-Rails (Crex crex) during the autumn migration as in 1915. From Pett eastwards there must have been hundreds wherever there was sufficient cover to hide these ...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 May 1984 Comments Other 'THE BIRDS OF FAIR ISLE. In the last issue of 'The Annals of Scottish Natural History' (1909, pp. 69-75) Mr. W. Eagle Clarke gives a report on the observations made on this now well-known island during 1908. The results are even more extraordinary...
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