Monthly marathon

01 April 1988 Comments Other What was that diving bird (plate 34)? Competitors named it as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo Shag P. aristotelis Scaup Aythya marila Slavonian Grebe Podiceps auritus (22%) (21%) (16%...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 January 1985 Comments Other 'I am naturally very reluctant to differ with so great an authority as Professor Collett, but I should like to remind the Rev F. Jourdain and Dr N. F. Ticehurst that apparently some doubt existed in Professor Collett's mind in regard to the effect...
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