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 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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