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01 February 1995 Comments Other The ninth stage (Brit. Birds 87: plate 178) was correctly identified as a Siberian Jay Perisoreus infaustus by everyone except a handful of competitors (Bonelli's Warbler Phylloscopus bonelli and Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus were the only ot...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1986 Comments Other 'FULMARS NESTING IN CAITHNESS. On May 30th, 1911, Mr. B. B. Riviere and I took a boat for the purpose of inspecting the cliffs which form Berriedale Head in Caithness. On some of the steeper faces we found that a small colony of Fulmar Petrels (Fulmaru...
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