Looking back

01 February 1999
Comments Other `We had here, in the winter of 1845, immense numbers of the gray phalarope (Phalaropus platyrhynchus). Every winter we have a few, but on this occasion they came in such flocks as had never been before noticed. They appeared to have had a long flight a...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1999
Comments Other December's twig-perching passerine (Brit. Birds 91: 580, plate 168, repeated opposite as plate 23), photographed by senior Young Ornithologist of the Year, Ben Phalan, was named by competitors as Common Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus (4%), Moustached...
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