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EXTRAORDINARILY little is known of the process of extension and contraction of range which many animal species periodically undergo. Among British birds, the only two the extension of range of which during the past hundred years has been at all adequately described are the little owl (Athene, noctua vidalii)1, an introduced species, and the fulmar petrel (Fulmarus g. glacialis)2.
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FITTER, R. The Black Redstart: A New British Breeding Bird. Nature 153, 659–660 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153659a0
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