Seventy-five years ago

01 August 2006
Comments Other FULMARS IN PEMBROKESHIRE. O N May 6th, 1930, Mr. C. Oldham and I saw a Fulmar (Fulmarus g. glacialis) flying past Strumble Head. This, I believe, was the first summer record of this species in Pembrokeshire or indeed in South Wales (Brit. Birds 24: 196...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1995
Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...
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Looking Back

01 May 1995
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, on 19th May 1970, a Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla taken from a cat at Fleckney, Leicestershire, was only the third since 1948 (and a second followed, at Fairburn Ings, Yorkshire, on 6th-13th June). A minor Nearctic arrival incl...
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