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01 May 1995 Comments Notes At about 18.30 hours on 29th September 1989, while watching a Spotted Crake Porzana porzana from a hide at Porth Hellick Pool, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, I became aware of a struggle in the reedbed. Through a 45 X telescope, I clearly saw a Water Rail...

Sabine's Gulls and other seabirds after the October 1987 storm

01 May 1989 Comments Main paper In a country where everyone supposedly talks about the weather, the storm of 15th/16th October 1987 and its aftermath was one of the most talked-about, written-about and filmed manifestations of weather ever experienced in Britain (Meteorological Offic...

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01 May 1989 Comments Reviews The Book of Naturalists. Edited by William Beebe. (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. £7.00) Reprinted anthology of natural history writings (first published in 1940), ranging from Aristotle to the mid twentieth century, strung together with...

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Sabine's Gulls and other seabirds after the October 1987 storm

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