Monthly marathon

01 October 2001 Comments Other The bird flying away from us in Monthly Marathon photo number 179 (plate 199, repeated here as plate 278) shows extremely long wings, and, although the tail is spread, the long outer feathers suggest a deeply forked tail, too. Pratincoles Glareola...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1986 Comments Other 'SHAG IN SUFFOLK. ON January 23rd, 1911, an immature Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus) was sent to me by post with a request to name it, and the following account of its capture:--"My son was riding his bicycle home the other evening about 7.30, and the bi...
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