Monthly marathon

01 March 2003 Comments Other For most participants, the bird featured in Monthly Marathon photo number 194 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 347, repeated here as plate 97 was immediately apparent as a skua (Stercorariidae). Only a gull (Laridae) has similar structural proportions and overal...
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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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