Monthly marathon

01 November 2000
Comments Other On plate 252 (repeated here as plate 344) we have a passerine perched on an overhead cable. The scale is difficult to judge, though we are clearly dealing with a small bird. It has a rather well-marked head pattern, with an apparently bold supercilium ...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 2000
Comments Other February's mystery bird (plate 71, repeated here as plate 116) is clearly a medium-sized leaf-warbler Phylloscopus. There are no obvious wing-bars or tertial tips, and apparently no central crown stripe, so we can immediately rule out a number of speci...
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