Fifty years ago

01 February 1981 Comments Other 'At three o'clock the following morning as I dozed with the lobster fishermen in their small bothy I was awakened by the fluttering of wings on my arm and head and found a StormPetrel, apparently dazzled by the candle, moving about my person.' SETON GO...
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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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