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 October 1983 Comments Other 'GREEN WOODPECKER versus STARLING, BY EMMA L. TURNER, F. L. S. WHILE wandering about soon after dawn on the morning of May 8th, I came across one of the most amusing incidents connected with bird life which I have ever watched. 'A pair of Green Wo...
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