Looking back

01 January 2002
Comments Other `The Birds of the Western Palearctic Volume 1 is now at an advanced stage, with page proofs expected shortly. It will be published by the Oxford University Press, it is hoped in May 1977 at £25, under the double title Handbook of the Birds of Europe, ...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 2002
Comments Other Anyone reading this column on a regular basis could be forgiven for thinking that there really is a need for a ‘Guide to Headless Waders’! They crop up with alarming regularity, and here we have another: Monthly Marathon photo number 182 (B...
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Fifty Years ago

01 December 1979
Comments Other 'Finding that there was no authentic record of the Pintail ever having nested, in the wild state, in England, we realised that very much more evidence was needed . . . Miss E. L, Turner, Dr. B. B. Riviere, Mr. T. A. Coward, and Canon Raven, amongst oth...
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