Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1985
Comments Other 'A few years ago the continued existence of the Kite (Milvus ictinus) as a British species seemed doomed. The bird (except for a rare straggler at long intervals) was, and indeed still is, confined to Wales, and in 1905 the total number surviving was b...
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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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