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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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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Notice

01 August 1961
Comments Editorials Possible charter flight to America for XIII International Ornithological Congress.--The cost of travel to the United States may cause a major reduction in the European attendance at the XIII International Ornithological Congress at Cornell University in J...
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Requests for information

01 August 1961
Comments Editorials Colour-ringed Black-headed Gulls.--As part of a population and behavioural study of the Black-headed Gull (Lams ridibundus), 1,500 juveniles were marked in June 1961, at Ravenglass, Cumberland, with a black plastic ring on the left leg and a metal ring on...
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