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01 December 1992 Comments Other It was a Ring-billed Gull, photographed in Lancashire in February 1991 by Malcolm Rains. Once again, all the leading competitors got the answer right, so Graham Catley, Roy Hargreaves, Hannu Jännes, Peter Lansdown, Pekka J. Nikander and Dave Nurney al...
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Fifty years ago

01 September 1981 Comments Other 'GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN IN INNER LONDON. On July 12th, 1931, I was sitting in Eaton Square Gardens with my wife and son and we all saw about fifteen feet away a Golden-crested Wren (Regulus r. anglorum) hopping about in the grass, very tame and easil...
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