Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006
Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 2006
Comments Other Monthly Marathon photo number 217, reproduced here as plate 38, clearly shows a relatively small passerine with a finely streaked mantle. From first impressions alone we can rule out most families, based upon the combination of leg colour, heavy-lookin...
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Fifty years ago

01 February 2006
Comments Other By SETON GORDON, C. B. E. (Collins "New Naturalist", London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. `A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle [Aquila chrysaetos] in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a ...
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Fifty years ago:

01 November 2005
Comments Other SARDINIAN WARBLER ON LUNDY – An adult male Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) was trapped on Lundy at 0905 hrs G.M.T. on 10th May 1955. After being examined, measured and photographed, it was shown to F. W. Gade and then released about mid...
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Monthly marathon

01 September 2005
Comments Other In Monthly Marathon photo number 215 (Brit. Birds 98: plate 115, repeated here as plate 307), we can see a small bird perched at the edge of a pool or puddle, but the overall brownish coloration of its plumage means that it does not really stand out ag...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 2005
Comments Other When asked by another SUNBIRD leader if I would prepare his next Monthly Marathon solution, owing to his busy tour schedule, my first reaction was `not a problem'. My second reaction, on seeing the photograph, was `me and my big mouth!' The bird in Mon...
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