PhotoSpot. 21. Desert Finch

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper On moderate views, the Desert Finch Rhodospiza obsoleta is just another sombrely coloured desert bird (plate 356), so that the first close views of one can come as quite a surprise--or at least they did to me--when they show a striking and beautifully ...
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Mystery photographs

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery bird (plate 298, repeated above) is clearly of substantial proportions, and it would not be unreasonable if, at first glance, it was thought to be a goose. A 'few wing beats more' and the relatively small, pointed wings, elongated ...
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Birds in winter

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper It seems very fitting that we should choose this, the first of the 'real winter months' , following the publication of The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland in November, to include our long-awaited selection of photographs typifying ...
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Overseas bird tours survey

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper Following previous surveys of our readers' opinions of binoculars & telescopes (Brit. Birds 71: 429-439; 76: 155-161; 78: 167-175) and of coats & jackets for birdwatchers (Brit. Birds 79: 198-202), we have now turned our attention to overseas b...
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Four problem stints

01 December 1986
Comments Main paper This paper discusses four records of stints Calidris, the identification of which has been much debated. All demonstrate the advances which have been made in recent years, especially including the publication of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (Jonsson ...
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Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972
Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...
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