Monthly Marathon

01 December 1998 Comments Other The bird in the seventh stage (plate 110) was identified as a wheatear Oenanthe by everyone, and most entrants (87%) correctly named it as Red-tailed O. xanthopryma (it was photographed by Colin Richardson in the United Arab Emirates in November 1989)....
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Looking Back

01 December 1998 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'The Cirl Bunting in Breconshire. At the present time the Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) is a firmly established resident in this county, and is to be found in at least five or six localities . . . I found a nest containing four ...
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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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