Monthly marathon

01 May 1989 Comments Other The sixth puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 81: plate 18) was clearly far too easy: 98% of entrants correctly identified it as a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps, the remaining 2% all misnaming it as Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. T h e seven...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 May 1984 Comments Other 'THE BIRDS OF FAIR ISLE. In the last issue of 'The Annals of Scottish Natural History' (1909, pp. 69-75) Mr. W. Eagle Clarke gives a report on the observations made on this now well-known island during 1908. The results are even more extraordinary...
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