Looking back

01 February 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Migration of the Ring Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) [Turdus torquatus].- The number of ring ouzels passing southward this autumn has been astonishing. Large flocks were seen continually on the downs [at Lewes, East Sussex]...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1991
Comments Other A nice easy one for a change' That, we suspect, is what many contestants thought as they hastily wrote 'Shore Lark' on their postcards. The votes were as follows: Shore Lark Eremophila alpestris (50%) Temminck's Horned Lark E. bilopha (50%)The entrants...
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