Monthly marathon

01 January 2001 Comments Other Bearing in mind some of the more extraordinar y guesses submitted for previous photographs in this Monthly Marathon series, such as a Crimson-winged Finch Rhodopechys sanguinea that, to one contestant, looked like a Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata, it i...
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Looking back

01 January 2001 Comments Other A very small wader in the company of a party of Redshank (Tringa totanus) was observed at the sewage farm, Cambridge, on March 17th, 1950. We approached within 50 yards of the bird, one observer using Ross x6 and the other x8 binoculars and each watche...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 June 1984 Comments Other 'May I trespass on your space to the extent of a few lines to draw the attention of readers of BRITISH BIRDS to a scheme for marking birds which we have just set afoot? This inquiry into bird migration is to be carried out from the Natural History Depa...
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