Monthly marathon

01 December 2004 Comments Other When I first saw Monthly Marathon photo number 209 in print (Brit. Birds 97: plate 265, repeated here as plate 380), I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but as I wasn't expecting to have to write the solution, I didn't devote much thought to the probl...
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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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