Monthly Marathon

01 May 1997
Comments Other The members of the tideline gang (plate 7), photographed by Richard T. Mills in Co. Cork in September 1975, were correcdy identified as Common Redshanks Tringa totanus, Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus and a Bla...
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Looking Back

01 May 1997
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Although the Stone Curlew [Burhinus oedicnemus] is a bird of extreme wariness, it is possible on Thetford Warren to get within ten yards of flocks numbering from twelve to twenty in the months of May and June. In the "Fauna of N...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 August 1985
Comments Other 'A few years ago the continued existence of the Kite (Milvus ictinus) as a British species seemed doomed. The bird (except for a rare straggler at long intervals) was, and indeed still is, confined to Wales, and in 1905 the total number surviving was b...
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