Monthly marathon

01 March 1989 Comments Other December's wader (Brit. Birds 81: plate 353) was named by entrants as: Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (73%) Least Sandpiper C. minutilla (12%) Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (7%) Temminck's Stint C. temminckii (3%), with a small n u m b e r of entr...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 March 1989 Comments Other 'WE are pleased to record that a pair of Kites (Milvus milvus) nested in Devonshire in the spring of 1913. Unfortunately the nest was taken by some boys, to the great annoyance of the owner of the estate, who for many years has taken a great pride in t...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1986 Comments Other 'FULMARS NESTING IN CAITHNESS. On May 30th, 1911, Mr. B. B. Riviere and I took a boat for the purpose of inspecting the cliffs which form Berriedale Head in Caithness. On some of the steeper faces we found that a small colony of Fulmar Petrels (Fulmaru...
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