Monthly marathon

01 May 1994 Comments Other February's breast-banded passerine (plate 33) was named as Horned Lark Eremophila alpestris (66%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (21%), Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (11%) and Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla (2%), It was a juvenile Ho...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 August 1984 Comments Other 'On June 27th last I saw on the Bempton Cliffs an undoubted example of Brünnich's Guillemot (Uria bruennichi). I saw this bird several times as it always returned to the same ledge in company with a Common Guillemot, and it was not more than 40 or 50 ...
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