Monthly marathon

01 November 1993 Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 November 1993 Comments Other 'The British Trust for Ornithology has announced that its endeavours to obtain financial backing for the ambitious project of mapping the breeding distributions of British and Irish birds have been rewarded. The Leverhulme Trust Fund has granted to the...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1989 Comments Other The sixth puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 81: plate 18) was clearly far too easy: 98% of entrants correctly identified it as a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps, the remaining 2% all misnaming it as Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. T h e seven...
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