Looking back

01 July 2002 Comments Other [From: Blue-cheeked Bee-eater in Scilly: a new British Bird] `Miss Hilda M. Quick, to whom full credit for the observation is due, sent us a short account of the bird immediately after she had seen it. At our request she has supplied the following deta...
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Fifty years ago

01 June 1980 Comments Other 'ROOKS COLLECTING RUBBER OBJECTS. The Rooks (Corvus f. frugilegus) of Wanstead Park have a strange custom which may not have been brought before the notice of readers of British Birds. For more than twenty years they have been in the habit of collectin...
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