Monthly marathon

01 February 2000
Comments Other Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus, Northumberland, September 1993 he ninth stage of the competition featured two photographs of the same species (December's plates 283 & 284, repeated here as 69 & 70), in both of which it appears `headless'. Si...
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Looking back

01 February 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Migration of the Ring Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) [Turdus torquatus].- The number of ring ouzels passing southward this autumn has been astonishing. Large flocks were seen continually on the downs [at Lewes, East Sussex]...
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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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