Monthly marathon

01 February 1991 Comments Other The black-tailed passerine on the wires (plate 288 in the November 1990 issue) inspired a wide range of answers: Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti (54%) Blackstart Cercomela melanura (14%) Lesser Whitethroat Sylvia curruca (12%), with fewer votes for Ye...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 February 1991 Comments Other "THERE is a polyglot Starling in this garden. Sometimes he rehearses a recitation from memory. At other times he improvises according to his fancy, and now and then he hits an unexpected nail on the head with remarkable success. Thus the other morning ...
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Short reviews

01 February 1991 Comments Reviews Livre Rouge des Oiseaux Nicheurs d'Alsace. (Centre d'Etudes Ornithologiques d'Alsace, Bitche, 1989. F 120.00). Few regions of France have been as little explored by British birdwatchers as Alsace, but this northeastern comer of the country has ...
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Reviews

01 February 1991 Comments Reviews Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland. By J. N. Dymond, P. A. Fraser and S. J. M. Gantlett. T. & A. D. Poyser, Calton, 1990. 366 pages; many maps, diagrams and line-drawings. £19.00.  What value lies in the scores of county bird reports, ...
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