Monthly Marathon

01 July 1997 Comments Other The answers to both the tenth and the eleventh hurdles (plates 49 and 57) will be given next month; the twelfth appears below (plate 65). The first person to accumulate at least ten correct answers, and also achieve a higher total than any other compet...
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Looking Back

01 July 1997 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in July/August 1972, Two-barred Crossbills Loxia leucoptera came along in the wake of the 'marked (but not massive)' invasion of Common Crossbills L. curvirostra noted last month. (Brit. Birds 66: 353). ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 June 1986 Comments Other 'PROBABLE SNOW-GEESE IN ESSEX. I have received a communication from Major J. Thornhill, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, to the effect that while he was searching the marshes in the neighbourhood ofthat place on April 13th, 1911, he observed two pairs of birds whi...
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