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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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1991
Comments Other 'A pair of Hoopoes (Upupa e. epops) nested near Taplow in 1916. They were noticed by Mr and Mrs W. R. Dunstan frequently in a rather secluded garden, and towards the end of the third week in May a single young bird was seen accompanying its parents.' (...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1991
Comments Other This monthly competition to win a SUNBIRD birdwatching holiday in Africa, Asia or North Africa goes from strength to strength, with more and more entries being submitted. The number of postcards naming the bird in plate 157 was an all-ti...
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