Monthly marathon

01 March 1998 Comments Other The bunting Emberiza {Brit. Birds 90: plate 208) was named as Cirl E. cirlus (52%), Yellowhammer E. citrinella (29%), Rustic E. rustica (10%), Pine E. leucocephalos (5%) and Yellow-breasted E. aureola (4%). It was a female Cirl Bunting, photographed in...
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Looking Back

01 March 1998 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'The name of Witherby has been inseparably linked with British Birds since the journal's foundation in 1907. H. F. Witherby, who conceived the original idea and secured the support of his fellow ornithologists for its launching, ...
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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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