Monthly marathon

01 November 1996 Comments Other The farther of the two birds in plate 144 was named as American Coot Fulica americana (80%), Red-knobbed (exCrested) Coot F. cristata (10%), Common Coot F. atra (7%) and Moorhen Gallinula chloropus (3%), and the nearer as Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisege...
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Looking Back

01 November 1996 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Nansen's Discovery of the Breeding Habits of Ross's Gull. The "Daily Chronicle" during the past few days has given us the first connected narrative from the pen of the "Hero of the "White North". This account of the greatest adv...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 October 1991 Comments Other 'A pair of Hoopoes (Upupa e. epops) nested near Taplow in 1916. They were noticed by Mr and Mrs W. R. Dunstan frequently in a rather secluded garden, and towards the end of the third week in May a single young bird was seen accompanying its parents.' (...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1991 Comments Other This monthly competition to win a SUNBIRD birdwatching holiday in Africa, Asia or North Africa goes from strength to strength, with more and more entries being submitted. The number of postcards naming the bird in plate 157 was an all-ti...
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