Monthly marathon

01 October 1995
Comments Other As noted last month, the closing dates for the last three hurdles (plates 97, 111 and 126) are all 15th October 1995, so the answers will be given next month. This month's hurdle is shown below (plate 140). The current leaders in this competition are J...
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Looking Back

01 October 1995
Comments Other 'Burrow-chat, Wheatear or White-rump, Saxicola OEnanthe. Abundant on the sand links along our coast, where it arrives early in the spring, and breeds in the deserted rabbit-holes . . . It is delicious eating, although in this neighbourhood it is neglec...
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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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