Monthly marathon

01 August 2002 Comments Other I have to admit that my first reaction upon seeing photo number 187 (Brit. Birds 95: plates 77 & 111; repeated here as plate 254) was `what an awful photograph!' and to feel a little pity for whoever would have the task of writing a solution. Littl...
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Rhynchokinesis in waders

01 August 2002 Comments Other One's first experience of a wader deliberately bending its upper mandible is a surprise; at first sight, birds' bills seem to be such rigid structures. The upper mandible has, in fact, some flexibility, and waders can occasionally be seen exercising th...
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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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