Monthly marathon

01 February 2004 Comments Other Well, it makes a change from a pipit Anthus or a gull Larus I hear you cry, and it will be fairly obvious to most readers of British Birds that photo number 202 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 329, repeated here as plate 52) shows one of the blackand-white flyc...
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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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