Monthly marathon

01 June 1993
Comments Other STAGE 1 (plate 18): Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (71%), Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (10%), Greater Yellowlegs T. melanoleuca (4%) and Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (3%), with 2 % or less each for 12 other species. STAGE 2 (plate 32): Leach's Sto...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 June 1993
Comments Other On 13th June 1968, 'The first recorded British nest of the Bluethroat Luscinia svecica was found in the Moray Basin faunal area of Scotland' by Dr J. J. D. Greenwood, now Director of the BTO. (Brit. Birds 61: 524). Earlier, three LesserGrey Shrike...
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