Monthly marathon

01 March 1993 Comments Other The grey-and-black-and-white bird in December's puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 85: plate 322) was named by entrants as: Caspian Tern Sterna caspia (42%) Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica (40%) Laughing Gull Larus atricilla (6%) Whiskered Tern Ch...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 March 1993 Comments Other 'The nesting of a pair of Snowy Owls Nyctea scandiaca on Fetlar, Shetland, in 1967 was the first substantiated record in the wild in the British Isles. Publicity was inevitable and so the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds organised a round...
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Monthly marathon

01 March 1991 Comments Other With the same issue containing a 'Mystery photographs' text and photographs relating to Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus (Brit. Birds 83: 561-564, plates 302 & 303), was plate 306 a simple problem, or a trap? Clearly, quite a number of entra...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 March 1991 Comments Other 'ARCTIC SKUA SOARING IN PURSUIT OF TERNS. EARLY in September, 1915, I watched an Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) attacking some Common Terns in Blakeney Harbour, in a distinctly unusual manner. The Terns, gradually mounting to a great height in ...
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