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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Monthly marathon

01 August 1991
Comments Other Competitors found the eye-level, rear view of the flying raptor (plate 117) far less of a problem than the previous month's front view of the flying Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax (plate 110), which knocked everyone back to the start line. Answers w...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1991
Comments Other 'On July 6th, 1916, at the University of St. Andrews, Mr W. Eagle Clarke received the honorary degree of LL.D. We congratulate Mr Eagle Clarke on this well-earned reward for his many years of valuable scientific work, especially in connexion with the m...
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