Monthly marathon

01 May 1995 Comments Other The rear view of March's wader (plate 38) provided no serious * problem for the three leaders (Jon Holt, Jakob Sunesen and Peter Sunesen), all of whom (as well as 59% of entrants) identified it as a Greater Sand Plover Charadrius leschenaultii. Ot...
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Looking Back

01 May 1995 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, on 19th May 1970, a Baillon's Crake Porzana pusilla taken from a cat at Fleckney, Leicestershire, was only the third since 1948 (and a second followed, at Fairburn Ings, Yorkshire, on 6th-13th June). A minor Nearctic arrival incl...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 September 1982 Comments Other 'DARTFORD WARBLER IN CORNWALL.--Dr. Clark says that it was unrecorded after the hard winter of 1886-7 until May, 1889, when one was seen at Hayle. In April, 1904, a nest was found near Penryn, and in 1905 one at Linkinhorne, and another at St. Buryan.'...
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