Hastings Rarities
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hastings-rarities-275-17986051
title:
Hastings Rarities
text:
The Hastings Rarities affair is a case of statistically demonstrated ornithological fraud that misled the bird world for decades in the 20th century. The discovery of the long-running hoax shocked ornithologists. The Hastings Rarities were a series of records of rare birds added to the British list on the basis of hundreds of reports, supported by preserved specimens, from George Bristow (1863–1947), a taxidermist and gunsmith of St Leonards-on-Sea, a town on the south coast of England. His repo
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ornithological fraud
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Rarities
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date modified:
2023-12-21T20:06:38Z
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