Notes

01 March 1985
Comments Notes Aberrant Slavonian Grebe. A thick-billed and unfamiliarly plumaged Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus appeared on the open marine bathing-pool at Penzance, Cornwall, on 28th December 1981. It was distinctly odd-looking: rather bulky, with a relatively th...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1985
Comments Main paper The combination of comparatively large head, large eye, slender legs and short bill clearly shows last month's mystery bird (plates 50 & 56) to be a plover. Furthermore, the single breast band (albeit broken in the middle) coupled with otherwi...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1985
Comments Other 'A Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) was shot at Newhythe, near Aylesford, Kent, on November 25th, 1909. I am pleased to say that a police prosecution followed, but the defendant, who pleaded ignorance of the identity of the bird, was let off with the payme...
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PhotoSpot. 9. Knot

01 March 1985
Comments Main paper Adult Knots Calidris canutus normally spend a British September in dense, wary, moulting flocks on our largest estuaries. In contrast, juveniles fresh from Greenland or Arctic Canada may appear in habitats shunned by the adults, and may be extremely ta...
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