Monthly marathon

01 August 1999 Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Fifty years ago

01 November 1981 Comments Other 'Most of the estimates about the Hobby's status are vague and uncertain. During the last twenty years it has deserted several haunts, in others it is decreasing rapidly. The desertion of old strongholds affords a sad but interesting problem. The reason...
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