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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Monthly marathon

01 September 1995 Comments Other We greatly regret that the closing dates for the last two hurdles (plates 97 and 111) were given incorrectly as 15th July and 15th August, instead of 15th August and 15th September, respectively. We are, therefore, extending the deadline for receipt of...
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Looking Back

01 September 1995 Comments Other 'Honey-buzzard, Pemis apivorus. I could wish to exclude the vulgar name of honey-buzzard, for it only tends to perpetuate an error, since it is well known that the bird never eats honey. Ray called it "Buteo apivorus seu vespivorus" as if it fed solely...
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