Monthly marathon

01 August 2002
Comments Other I have to admit that my first reaction upon seeing photo number 187 (Brit. Birds 95: plates 77 & 111; repeated here as plate 254) was `what an awful photograph!' and to feel a little pity for whoever would have the task of writing a solution. Littl...
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Rhynchokinesis in waders

01 August 2002
Comments Other One's first experience of a wader deliberately bending its upper mandible is a surprise; at first sight, birds' bills seem to be such rigid structures. The upper mandible has, in fact, some flexibility, and waders can occasionally be seen exercising th...
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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 BrĂ¼nnich'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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