Looking back

01 April 2001 Comments Other Fifty years ago: `LARGE NUMBERS OF BLACKTAILED GODWITS IN HANTS. –­ With reference to the note [Brit. Birds 43: 128] on large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa) at Poole Harbour, Dorset, in March and April, 1949, Dr. C. Suffern writes t...
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Monthly Marathon

01 June 1997 Comments Other April's warbler (plate 33) was photographed in an exotic location (in Portugal, by Dr Kevin Carlson, in June 1990) and a few competitors gambled on Spectacled Sylvia conspicillata, Subalpine S. cantillans, Desert S. nana or Barred S. nisoria, but, by a...
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Looking Back

01 June 1997 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in June/July 1972: '. . . after 10th June, a total of probably several hundred [Common Crossbills Loxia curvirostra] being reported in many parts of Britain from Shetland to Lundy [Devon] by the end of the month . . . The largest...
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