Looking Back

01 September 1998
Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'THE BLACK REDSTART INQUIRY FOR 1947 . . . has yielded evidence for at least fifteen pairs of Black Redstarts {Phoenicuros ochruros gibraltariensis) breeding in south-east England in 1947, again in the counties of Sussex, Kent and Midd...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 1998
Comments Other Almost nobody was fooled by the Common Coot Fullica atra in plate 88, photographed in Shetland by Wendy Dickson in April 1998, although 6% plumped for Red-knobbed Coot F. cristata and the pale flight feathers deceived one entrant into naming it as Redc...
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