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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Monthly marathon

01 November 1986 Comments Other The bird in the second photograph (Brit. Birds 79: 418, plate 223) was identified by competition entrants as follows: Brambling Fringilla montifringilla (87%) Chaffinch F. coelebs (6%) Siskin Carduelis spinus (2%) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (2%) C...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1986 Comments Other 'THE "BRITISH BIRDS" MARKING SCHEME, PROGRESS FOR 1911 AND SOME RESULTS BY H. F. WITHERBY. Once again I am able to report decided progress in the work of our enthusiastic band of "ringers". The number of birds marked has steadily increased until t...
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