Monthly marathon

01 June 1998 Comments Other We have a winner! A new 'Marathon' starts now. Read on. The preening bird (plate 30) was named as: Little Crake Porzana parva (24%), Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (23%), Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (13%), Pectoral Sandpiper C. melanotos (12%)...
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Looking Back

01 June 1998 Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'From the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland . . . Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristatd) were seen wherever we stayed and often bred within a hundred yards of us, but always o...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1990 Comments Other 'CUCKOO' S METHOD OF DEPOSITING EGG. On May 19th, 1915,I visited an old friend of mine in Norfolk. He leads a very secluded life but is a keen observer of natural history and a man whose word one can trust implicitly. There are some ...
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