Monthly Marathon

01 December 1998 Comments Other The bird in the seventh stage (plate 110) was identified as a wheatear Oenanthe by everyone, and most entrants (87%) correctly named it as Red-tailed O. xanthopryma (it was photographed by Colin Richardson in the United Arab Emirates in November 1989)....
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Looking Back

01 December 1998 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'The Cirl Bunting in Breconshire. At the present time the Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) is a firmly established resident in this county, and is to be found in at least five or six localities . . . I found a nest containing four ...
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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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