Monthly marathon

01 December 1992 Comments Other It was a Ring-billed Gull, photographed in Lancashire in February 1991 by Malcolm Rains. Once again, all the leading competitors got the answer right, so Graham Catley, Roy Hargreaves, Hannu Jännes, Peter Lansdown, Pekka J. Nikander and Dave Nurney al...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1990 Comments Other 'THE Yellowhammer (Emberiza c. citrinella) is known in western Carnarvonshire indifferently as Penfelen (i.e. Yellow-head) or Gwas y neidr (i.e. Servant of the Adder). The latter name is also applied to the Adder-bolt or Dragonfly. A common Welsh name ...
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