Monthly marathon

01 April 2002
Comments Other As reported in the March issue (Brit. Birds 95: 150-151), the longrunning eleventh `Marathon' was eventually won by Peter Sunesen, and a new one has now started. In order to give as many new competitors as possible a chance to enter the twelfth `Marath...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘GOOSANDERS IN SHROPSHIRE. ON Saturday, February 12th, 1927, I had brought to me for identifi- cation an adult male Goosander (Mergus merganser) which had been shot, out of a pair, on the Severn b...
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Looking back

01 April 2002
Comments Other [From Ornithological Report From Norfolk for 1926, by B. B. Riviere] `The event of most outstanding interest to Norfolk ornithology in the year 1926, and one which seems likely to have an important bearing upon its future, was undoubtedly the purchase ...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1995
Comments Other The seventh 'Marathon' was won by Peter Sunesen (Brit. Birds 88: 560), who joins the elite band of expert bird-identifiers who have won SUNBIRD holidays: Pekka J. Nikander (who chose to go to Thailand), Anthony McGeehan (Arctic Canada), Ralph Hobbs (Ke...
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Looking Back

01 December 1995
Comments Other 'Woodcock, Scobpax rusticola. The woodcock arrives here [Durham and Cleveland] about the 15th of October, but does not remain with us, proceeding to the larger woods further inland. The greater number of these birds come with a north-east wind during the ...
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