Monthly marathon

01 June 1996
Comments Other Plate 24 obviously showed a pratincole Glareola, but which one? Entrants decided on Oriental G. maldivarum (50%), Collared G. pratincole (27%) or Black-winged G. nordmanni (23%). The most-chosen species was the right answer. This Oriental Pratinco...
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Looking Back

01 June 1996
Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta. The avocet is occasionally killed in spring, but is now a rare bird in Norfolk. It was formerly not uncommon, and nested habitually in some of the marshy parts of the county. It is said ...
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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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