Monthly marathon

01 January 1992 Comments Other October's fast-departing barred bird (plate 231) was named as: Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus (84%) Saker.F. cherrug (8%) Kestrel F. tinnunculus (4%) Hawk Owl Surnia ulula (3%), with fewer votes for Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus, Spa...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1986 Comments Other 'Of the Grey Phalarope's love-making the author gives a delightful account, from which we may quote the following:-- "As the male seemed to pay no attention to her alluring movements she flew rapidly up to him--producing as she left the water a peculia...
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