Monthly marathon

01 April 1995 Comments Other Nearly everyone (91%) correctly identified the bird in plate 10 as Black-shouldered Kite Elanus caeruleus, the only other species named being Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus. An even higher proportion of entrants (97%) correctly identified the wade...
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Looking Back

01 April 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in April 1970, the talking point was an unprecedented invasion of at least 40 Little Egrets Egretta garzetta, the first 12 all arriving during 17th-19th April; in contrast, there was none in autumn. In the same month, British Bir...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1990 Comments Other 'BIRDS AND SHELL-FIRE. I have lately been reading various articles in the papers regarding birds in the war-stricken parts of France, so I thought you might care to have a few of my personal observations on this subject . . . The House-Sparrows continu...
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