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 September 1992 Comments Other June's bathing bird (plate 132) was named as a greater variety of species than any previous photograph in this series: Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba (63%) Hoopoe Upupa epops (6%) Citrine Wagtail M. citreola (4%), with other votes for Barnacle Goose Brant...
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Seventy-five years age

01 September 1992 Comments Other ' G O R R K C T P R O N U N C I A T I O N O F C H O U G H AND P O C H A R D . T o the Editors of British Birds. Sirs, I think I am correct in stating that the generally accepted pronunciation of the word Chough is like the word rough. T h e other day, how...
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