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 age

01 August 1992
Comments Other 'SWALLOW NESTING IN A DUG-OUT IN FRANCE. My son, 2nd-Lieut. Eliot Wallis, writes to me that, seeing a Swallow (Hirundo r. rustica) come out of a deserted German dug-out in northeast France, he looked and found a nest ''with four spotted eggs" abou...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1992
Comments Other It was a Siberian Jay, photographed by Henry Lehto in Finland in January y 1991. All of the leading contenders got it right, so this long-running current 'Marathon' continues, with eight entrants still in the hunt, on 13-in-a-row sequences. The wi...
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