Looking back

01 October 2002 Comments Other Fifty years ago:  ‘Jays and Magpies eating wasps.–In reference to the notes on reactions of birds eating wasps (Brit. Birds 44: 406-407) it seems worth recording that my captive Jays (Garrulus glandarius) ...
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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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