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Thick-Billed Warbler at Fair Isle: A new British Bird

01 March 1956 Comments Main paper AN example of the Thick-billed Warbler (Phragmaticola aedon), a bird from south-east Asia and apparently the first of its species to be recorded in Europe, was captured at Fair Isle on 6th October !955In the fleeting glimpses we obtained of this bird in t...

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01 December 1955 Comments Notes Goshawk in Middlesex.--On the afternoon of 20th March 1955 B. P . Pickess, I. G. and K. Johnson and I were standing beside the River Colne at Harefield Moor in Middlesex, when a raptor was seen approaching at a height of 200-250 ft. from the Buckinghamshi...

The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

01 June 1954 Comments Main paper T H E study of bird-migration in the British area has received a great impetus since the war through the establishment of a number of bird observatories at widely separated points, the manning of these stations by competent amateur watchers during migrati...

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01 March 1941 Comments Notes As an example of how food-supply can affect the number of birds breeding in a locality the following may be of interest. When I first came to Benenden, Kent, about twenty years ago, so far as I know Hawfinches (Coccothraustes c. coccothraustes) never nes...

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Thick-Billed Warbler at Fair Isle: A new British Bird

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The spring migration of the Willow Warbler in 1952

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