Monthly marathon

01 January 2015
Comments Other t would be unfair to penalise those competitors whose postcards have been delayed by the British postal strike, or those who were unable to send their entries at all because of blocked postboxes. We are, therefore, extending the deadline from 15th Septemb...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1988
Comments Other 'THE RED-THROATED DIVER IN ITS BREEDING-HAUNTS. BYE. L. TVRNF.R. HON. MF.M. B.O.U. We can hardly imagine a greater contrast than that which exists between an English hedgerow in early June and the haunt of the Red-throated Diver. In the one: All little bi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1988
Comments Other 'PARENT-BIRDS REMOVING MATTER FROM THE GAPES OF NESTLINGS. For some years now I have been paying particular attention to the nestlings of common birds. It is of course now known to all ornithologists that the parents keep the nest clean (as a general rule...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1988
Comments Other 'VARIATION IN TONGUE-SPOTS OF NESTLING SKYLARK. WHEN, in 1907 (cf. Ibis, 1907, p, 574), I drew attention to the tongue-marks found in the young of certain Passerine birds, I was under the impression that the pattern of these ornamentations was always fixe...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1988
Comments Other BI.YTH'S REED-WARBLER {Acrocephalus dumelorum). At Fair Isle four or five occurred on September 24th, 26th, 29th and 30th, and October 1st. This is very interesting especially in view of the fact that one has already been recorded in our pages at Holy Isl...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1988
Comments Other 'For a considerable time past there has been a general impression that some of our summer migrants have been decreasing in numbers, and that in some districts certain species which were common a few years ago are becoming less common every vear.' (Brit. B...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1988
Comments Other ovember's wader photograph (Brit. Birds 80: 594, plate 302) was obviously far too easy to identify: Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca (74%) Lesser Yellowlegs T.flavipes (11%) Redshank T. totanus (8%) Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatus (3%) Spotted Red...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 February 1988
Comments Other 'On December 13th, 1912, my brother shot a Curlew-Sandpiper (Eroliaferruginea) atCairness, Aberdeenshire. I saw the bird half an hour after it was dead, and was able to identify it. My brother thought it was a Dunlin, but I directly noticed the white rump...
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Monthly Marathon

01 January 1988
Comments Other he sixth photograph in the current series (Brit. i Birds 80: 514, plate 260) must have provided a psychological problem for those entrants (17%) who had named the fifth bird (actually a Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros) as Red-flanked Bluetail Tarsiger...
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