Monthly marathon

01 August 1994 Comments Other PLATE 60: Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus (60%), Monk Vulture Aegypius monachus (31%), Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos (7%), and other vultures (2%). PLATE 72: Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (83%), Grey Phalarope P. fulicarius (16%), and ...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 August 1994 Comments Other In August 1969, there was the start of a huge influx of Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea with over 19,000 bird-days from 250 localities. The peak came on 31st August, when there were at least 3,500 present. The all-time ringing total was more than...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984 Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...
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