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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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1982 Comments Other 'DARTFORD WARBLER IN CORNWALL.--Dr. Clark says that it was unrecorded after the hard winter of 1886-7 until May, 1889, when one was seen at Hayle. In April, 1904, a nest was found near Penryn, and in 1905 one at Linkinhorne, and another at St. Buryan.'...
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