Monthly marathon

01 October 1992 Comments Other It was a Greater Yellowlegs, photographed in Florida, USA, in April by Gordon Langsbury. Of the leading contestants, none fell at this hurdle. The eventual winner of this competition, which is turning into a real endurance test, will be able to choose ...
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Seventy-five years age

01 October 1992 Comments Other 'A SPOTTED REDSHANK IN NORFOLK. It may be of interest to record that on September 7th, 1917, I saw a Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) standing beside a dirty pond on the main road between Syderstone and Docking, practically in the village of Syders...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990 Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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