Mystery photographs

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper The grass provides scale, and last month's mystery bird is clearly a largish warbler. The first step in narrowing the identification further should be to determine the genus. The bill is not particularly long nor obviously wide-based, so thou...
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Notes

01 October 1972 Comments Notes Great Blue Herons coming on board ships in mid-Atlantic In late November 1968 reports appeared in the Bristol press that a heron had arrived at Avonmouth on a British merchantman, M.V. Pkardy, and had been taken to Rode Tropical Bird Gardens at Frome, Som...
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