Monthly marathon

01 August 1996
Comments Other The eighth 'Marathon' has been won, and the ninth 'Marathon' has now started. The rules have now been relaxed (see Brit. Birds 39: 333). The passerine in plate 90 was named by competitors as Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus (50%), Wood Warbler P. ...
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Looking Back

01 August 1996
Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'On 3rd August 1946, D. E. Sergeant and R. A. Hinde noticed an unfamiliar warbler in a sallow bush on the edge of a large reed-bed. Only a few short views of the bird were obtained, but it was seen to have a very dark crown and a very ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1990
Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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