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An Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos unusually broods two downy chicks on Gough Island; photograph by Michelle Risi, 15 December 2015.  Full story here. Southern Africa, generally well covered by books on particular groups of birds, now has a seabird book to fill a notable gap and join existing books on game birds, water birds […]

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The on-line SPRI Polar Directory hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute provides “brief details of libraries, museums and ganisations with interests relating to the polar and cold regions; that is, to the Arctic and Antarctic and to all parts of the world where ice, snow and permafrost are to be found.” […]

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