Fifty years ago:

01 November 2005
Comments Other SARDINIAN WARBLER ON LUNDY – An adult male Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) was trapped on Lundy at 0905 hrs G.M.T. on 10th May 1955. After being examined, measured and photographed, it was shown to F. W. Gade and then released about mid...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 February 1985
Comments Other 'A Bittern (Bolaurus stellaris) was put up by my son on the Crumbles, Eastbourne, on December 21st, 1909. Though he had his gun with him he wisely forebore to shoot the bird, which I hope is still at large. H. P. MOLINEUX.' {Brit. Birds 3: 308, Februar...
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