Seventy-five years ago

01 August 2006
Comments Other FULMARS IN PEMBROKESHIRE. O N May 6th, 1930, Mr. C. Oldham and I saw a Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glacialis) flying past Strumble Head. This, I believe, was the first summer record of this species in Pembrokeshire or indeed in South Wales (Brit. Birds 24: 196...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 December 1993
Comments Other 'In the old days a British bird-watcher, not looking beyond his home islands, required no adjective to distinguish the only species of kite that frequents them. Today, almost surely using A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, he does need a...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1993
Comments Other Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea (75%) Yellow-throated Sparrow Petronia xanthocollis (8%) Common Chaffinch F. coelebs (7%) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (6%) with a few votes for Snowfinch Montifiingilla nivalis, Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githageneus ...
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