Monthly marathon

01 April 1993 Comments Other The grebe in backview (plate 8) was named as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena (39%) Slavonian Grebe P. auritus (36%) Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis (25%) It was a Slavonian Grebe, photographed in Lancashire in March 1990 by Steve Young. Of the l...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 April 1993 Comments Other 'A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was trapped at a locality in southern England on 22nd July 1967 and then retrapped on 9th September; at the request of those concerned, locality and names of observers are being suppressed for the time being. All these r...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1989 Comments Other The bird in plate 236 was named by competitors as: Green-backed Butorides striatus (85%) Western Reef Heron Egretta gularis (7%) Purple Heron Ardea purpurea (4%) Black Egret Egretta ardesiaca (3%). The majority got it right; the superb photograph of a ...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 October 1989 Comments Other 'INCREASE AND DECREASE IN SUMMER RESIDENTS. REPORT ON THE 1913 INQUIRY. RED-BACKED SHRIKE . . . there can be no reasonable doubt that it is decreasing . . . THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER . . . appears to be holding its own almost everywhere . . . THE ...
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