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The pioneers: part one
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Thousands of birders share a fascination with vagrant birds – tiny creatures that have beaten the odds to cross oceans and survive. Are they freaks of nature, or could there be an evolutionary purpose to their behaviour? Peter Alfrey delves deeper.
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The pioneers: part two
Posted: 24 Feb 2011
Concluding his vagrancy series, Peter Alfrey looks at the potential effects to a species’ ecology of having pioneering individuals, able to chart new territory.
Bird vagrancy and melting ice
One record of a Far Eastern vagrant in Europe is remarkable; two of the same species within two months is little short of amazing. Following the latest sighting of Long-billed Murrelet in Romania, Keith Vinicombe adds to his analysis of vagrancy patterns.
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