Monthly marathon

01 January 2004
Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Looking back

01 January 2004
Comments Other `An unrecorded occurrence of a probable Redflanked Bluetail in Lincolnshire.­­The extract quoted below is from page 82 of the typescript of an as yet unpublished book by the late G. H. Caton Haigh entitled "Birds of a Lincolnshire Parish being A List...
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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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