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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Monthly marathon

01 October 1992 Comments Other It was a Greater Yellowlegs, photographed in Florida, USA, in April by Gordon Langsbury. Of the leading contestants, none fell at this hurdle. The eventual winner of this competition, which is turning into a real endurance test, will be able to choose ...
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Seventy-five years age

01 October 1992 Comments Other 'A SPOTTED REDSHANK IN NORFOLK. It may be of interest to record that on September 7th, 1917, I saw a Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) standing beside a dirty pond on the main road between Syderstone and Docking, practically in the village of Syders...
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