Monthly marathon

01 June 2000 Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...
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Monthly Marathon

01 July 1997 Comments Other The answers to both the tenth and the eleventh hurdles (plates 49 and 57) will be given next month; the twelfth appears below (plate 65). The first person to accumulate at least ten correct answers, and also achieve a higher total than any other compet...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1995 Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...
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