ABSTRACT Reverse migration is a popular concept, often used to explain the occurrence of autumn vagrants.The term ‘reverse migration shadow’ has been used to identify regions in which autumn vagrancy of a given species may occur, and to predict potential future vagrants to Britain. In this paper, we evaluate this theory and, by analysing vagrancy patterns, demonstrate that autumn vagrancy is n

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