Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996
Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...
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Looking Back

01 January 1996
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, January 1971 was generally mild after the first week. Numbers of Tundra (Bewick's) Swans Cygnus columbianus topped the 1,000 mark for the first time on the Ouse Washes, About 60 Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus, but barely a doze...
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