Seventy-five years age

01 March 1992
Comments Other 'ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM NORFOLK FOR 1916. The great autumnal migration took place in the ordinary way, but few notes came to hand, there being no observers to make them. The influx of Redwings on October 17th was steady, numerous flocks, some of the...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1992
Comments Other Although mostly submerged , that bird flopping in the water (Brit. Birds 84: plate 296) was very distinctive. Answers given were: Sabine's Gull Larus sabini (88%) Gannet Sula bassana (2%) Osprey Pandion haliaetus (1%) Great Black-backed Gull Larus...
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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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