Monthly marathon

01 November 1989 Comments Other The third 'Monthly marathon' has been won, by R. N. Hobbs of Hastings, East Sussex. His winning 11-in-a-row sequence is repeated on page 571. The bird in plate 276 was named by competitors as follows: Fan-tailed Warbler Cisticola juncidis (65%) Gracefu...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 November 1989 Comments Other 'ON September 4th, after reading the Report on the Land-Rail in British Birds, I asked my bailiff is he had heard or seen any this year and he replied in the negative. Oddly enough, in the afternoon when some oats were being cut no less than five were ...
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Fifty years ago

01 March 1981 Comments Other 'Dr G. Carmichael Low stated at the December meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club that he (December 7th, 1930) and Mr A. H. Macpherson (December 6th) had seen all the five species ol British Grebes in one day; a Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigr...
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