Mystery Photographs

01 May 1997
Comments Main paper Two small, dark swifts with white rumps are found in the Western Palearctic: Little Swift Apus affinis, which, though recorded in Britain and Ireland on ten occasions up to the end of 1994, breeds no nearer than Northwest Africa, and White-rumped ...
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Mystery photographs

01 September 1996
Comments Main paper Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus is a rare visitor to Britain and Ireland which has become even rarer in recent years. A total of 47 was recorded here up to the end of 1957, 67 during 1958-83 and just 14 from 1984 to the end of 1994. An indi...
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