Looking back

01 June 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Occurrence of the Bohemian Waxwing [Bombycilla garrulus] near London.-I have notices of this bird having been killed last week [in mid January 1850] in many localities round London: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kilburn (seven s...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 2000
Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...
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Fifty years ago

01 May 1980
Comments Other 'SIGHT RECORDS. TO the Editors of BRITISH BIRDS. SIRS,—For some time now it has occurred to me that the admission of doubtful sight records is not going to serve the science of ornithology very soundly, 'On looking through the last four volumes of Br...
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