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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Special review

01 August 1955
Comments Reviews (Part II) T H E Lariformes a r e considered a separate order by the Russians and are dealt with by G. P . Dementiev. On the one hand, he writes, they approach the waders and on the other the auks. But " t h e common morphological characteristics are not n...
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