Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996 Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...
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Looking Back

01 January 1996 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, January 1971 was generally mild after the first week. Numbers of Tundra (Bewick's) Swans Cygnus columbianus topped the 1,000 mark for the first time on the Ouse Washes, About 60 Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus, but barely a doze...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 1989 Comments Other It was indeed a Long-legged Buzzard, photographed by Paul Doherty in Israel in December 1987. After four puzzle photographs in this third competition, 68 contestants are still in the running, with all four species identified correctly. Perhap...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 February 1989 Comments Other 'INCURSION OF WAXWINGS. A LARGE number of Waxwings (Ampelis garrulus) appear to have visited Great Britain this winter . . . and Herr F. Tischler records an invasion of Waxwings in East Prussia in the autumn of 1913. Not only have Waxwings been numerou...
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