Monthly marathon

01 February 2004 Comments Other Well, it makes a change from a pipit Anthus or a gull Larus I hear you cry, and it will be fairly obvious to most readers of British Birds that photo number 202 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 329, repeated here as plate 52) shows one of the blackand-white flyc...
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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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