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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Twenty-five years ago...

01 July 1993
Comments Other 'Attempted reintroduction of the White-tailed Eagle.--The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is currently attempting to reintroduce this magnificent raptor to one of its former Scottish haunts. Four young White-tailed Eagles Haliaeelus albicilla...
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