Monthly marathon

01 June 1994 Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 June 1994 Comments Other 'The status of the Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius. In 1967 about 230 pairs summered in England, an increase of 46% since 1962. The proportion of pairs north of a line from the Welland to the Severn increased from 41% in 1962 to 49% in 1967 and ...
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Seventy -five years ago

01 February 1983 Comments Other "In the past month we have been confronted at every turn by wonderful stories of a pair of luminous Owls, which apparently possess the power of emitting a light sufficiently brilliant to be mistaken for the light of a bicycle lamp! Sir Digby ...
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