Monthly marathon

01 December 1989
Comments Other The bird in plate 285 was named as: Skylark Alauda arvensis (72%) Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (7%) Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (6%) Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (5%) Short-toed Lark C. brachydactyla (4%) Woodlark Lullula arb...
Read More

Seventy-five years ago...

01 December 1989
Comments Other 'BIRDS MIGRATING NORTHWARDS IN OCTOBER. UNDER the above heading Mr. J. H. Gurney in the November number of British Birds (p. 143), records a large migration of birds taking place over the parishes of Northrepps, Overstrand, and Cromer in Norfolk, on th...
Read More

Fifty years ago

01 May 1981
Comments Other 'The bodies of three Great Crested Grebes and a Dabchick were found frozen stifTin the pack-ice . . . the birds had travelled under the ice, had been imprisoned and drowned when they strove to reach the surface . . . Five-and-twenty years ago a somewha...
Read More

Stay at the forefront of British birding by taking out a subscription to British Birds.

Subscribe Now