Mystery photographs

01 April 1988
Comments Main paper A quick glance at the distinctive bill-shape and long, pointed wings of last month's mystery bird (plate 73, repeated here as plate 89) is sufficient to identify it as a shearwater. The astute reader, confident in our sense of fair play, would have imm...
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The Manx Shearwater on Lundy

01 December 1944
Comments Main paper (Plate 5). THE status of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus p. puffinus) on Lundy has long been problematical. It has been repeatedly stated to breed, but only very few observers have been able to obtain positive proof of this and no one has succeeded in estab...
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Notes

01 November 1944
Comments Notes ALTHOUGH Carrion-Crows (Corvus c. cowrie) and Rooks (Corvus f, frugilegws) have been recorded occasionally as nesting on electric pylons, it may be of interest to record that as a result of observations by Mr. A. E. Billett at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset...
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