Looking back

01 June 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Occurrence of the Bohemian Waxwing [Bombycilla garrulus] near London.-I have notices of this bird having been killed last week [in mid January 1850] in many localities round London: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kilburn (seven s...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 2000
Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1995
Comments Other Most competitors correctly identified the bird in the seventh photograph in the current Marathon (Brit. Birds 87: plate 126) as an adult male Siberian Rubythroat Luscinia calliope (75%). It was photographed in China in May 1993 by D. C. Jardine. Other ...
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