Looking back

01 April 2001 Comments Other Fifty years ago: `LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACKTAILED GODWITS IN HANTS. –­ With reference to the note [Brit. Birds 43: 128] on large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) at Poole Harbour, Dorset, in March and April, 1949, Dr. C. Suffern writes t...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1992 Comments Other 'The note uttered by these Northern Willow-Wrens was distinctly shriller than that of our resident bird. It seems remarkable that there should be a clear distinction between the call-notes of Ph. t. trochilus and Ph. t. eversmanni, as well as between P...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1992 Comments Other This issue went to press before the closing date for the receipt of entries relating to the January photograph (plate 9). The answer will be revealed in the May issue. The next problem picture is shown in plate 98 (which is either the twenty-...
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