Monthly marathon

01 November 1989 Comments Other The third 'Monthly marathon' has been won, by R. N. Hobbs of Hastings, East Sussex. His winning 11-in-a-row sequence is repeated on page 571. The bird in plate 276 was named by competitors as follows: Fan-tailed Warbler Cisticola juncidis (65%) Gracefu...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 November 1989 Comments Other 'ON September 4th, after reading the Report on the Land-Rail in British Birds, I asked my bailiff is he had heard or seen any this year and he replied in the negative. Oddly enough, in the afternoon when some oats were being cut no less than five were ...
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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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