Monthly marathon

01 March 1995 Comments Other With the closing date for January's entries (28th February) coming a week after this March issue will have been printed and five days after it will have been posted to subscribers, the identity of the bird on the overhead wire (plate 10) will be reveal...
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Looking Back

01 March 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in March 1970, D. I. M. Wallace made a thorough analysis of the 'First ten years of the Rarities Committee' (Brit. Birds 63: 113-128). One aspect in particular will have changed between the 1950s/60s and today: back in those days...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 May 1990 Comments Other 'How long the Common Tern has nested at Blakeney there is probably no means of ascertaining now, but my father could speak to the settlement being in existence in 1830, or thereabouts, but probably it is much older than that. At that time there is reas...
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