Monthly marathon

01 February 1992
Comments Other The back view of November's small roosting wader (Brit. Birds 84: plate 278) was identified as belonging to: Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis (22%) Little Stint C. minuta (17%) Dunlin C. alpina (14%) Semipalmated Sandpiper C. pusilla (12%) Sanderli...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1989
Comments Other The bird in plate 236 was named by competitors as: Green-backed Butorides striatus (85%) Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis (7%) Purple Heron Ardea purpurea (4%) Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca (3%). The majority got it right; the superb photograph of a ...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 October 1989
Comments Other 'INCREASE AND DECREASE IN SUMMER RESIDENTS. REPORT ON THE 1913 INQUIRY. RED-BACKED SHRIKE . . . there can be no reasonable doubt that it is decreasing . . . THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER . . . appears to be holding its own almost everywhere . . . THE ...
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