Seventy-five years ago

01 February 2006
Comments Other That the number of Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps c. cristatus) nesting in some parts of England is largely determined by the frequency of nesting sites of a certain type can, I think, be proved from the remarkable rapidity they show in coloni...
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Monthly marathon

01 February 2006
Comments Other Monthly Marathon photo number 217, reproduced here as plate 38, clearly shows a relatively small passerine with a finely streaked mantle. From first impressions alone we can rule out most families, based upon the combination of leg colour, heavy-lookin...
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Fifty years ago

01 February 2006
Comments Other By SETON GORDON, C. B. E. (Collins "New Naturalist", London, 1955). 246 pages, 17 photographs. 16s. `A MONOGRAPH on the Golden Eagle [Aquila chrysaetos] in Scotland is long overdue and who could have produced a better one than Seton Gordon? For half a ...
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Monthly Marathon

01 January 1996
Comments Other The answers sent in for the first three hurdles can now be revealed. September's dozing wader (Brit. Birds 88: plate 126) was named as White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis (36%), Western Sandpiper C. mauri (24%), Little Stint C. minuta (23%), Se...
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Looking Back

01 January 1996
Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, January 1971 was generally mild after the first week. Numbers of Tundra (Bewick's) Swans Cygnus columbianus topped the 1,000 mark for the first time on the Ouse Washes, About 60 Glaucous Gulls Larus hyperboreus, but barely a doze...
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