Monthly marathon

01 April 2002
Comments Other As reported in the March issue (Brit. Birds 95: 150-151), the longrunning eleventh `Marathon' was eventually won by Peter Sunesen, and a new one has now started. In order to give as many new competitors as possible a chance to enter the twelfth `Marath...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘GOOSANDERS IN SHROPSHIRE. ON Saturday, February 12th, 1927, I had brought to me for identifi- cation an adult male Goosander (Mergus merganser) which had been shot, out of a pair, on the Severn b...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other [From Ornithological Report From Norfolk for 1926, by B. B. Riviere] `The event of most outstanding interest to Norfolk ornithology in the year 1926, and one which seems likely to have an important bearing upon its future, was undoubtedly the purchase ...
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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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