Mystery photographs

01 August 1977
Comments Main paper Scanning through an autumn party of common Calidris waders, one seems smaller and quicker than its companions. It lacks, however, the compactness and constant activity of a stint and, because it looks noticeably long in outline, is rather a puzzle. Att...
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Personalities. 8. Bernard King

01 August 1977
Comments Main paper Bernard King's name must be one of the most familiar to readers of this journal: his regular contributions, mostly in the 'Notes' section, started in 1942 with 'Unusual migrants in Surrey' (Brit. Birds 36: 76) and the latest—the 113th!—appears in t...
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Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972
Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...
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