Twenty-five years ago

01 October 1994
Comments Other Not a single Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phyloscopus proregulus was found in Britain and Ireland in October 1969 (despite there having been 18 in 1968), nor were there any Radde's Warblers P. schwarzi. No Dusky Warbler P. fuscatus was observed on land either...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1994
Comments Other The fifth photograph in this seventh Marathon was named as: Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus (84%), Mediterranean Shearwater P. yelkouan (9%), Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii (5%) and Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis (2%), with one vote f...
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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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