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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Twenty-five years ago

01 October 1994
Comments Other Not a single Pallas's Leaf Warbler Phyloscopus proregulus was found in Britain and Ireland in October 1969 (despite there having been 18 in 1968), nor were there any Radde's Warblers P. schwarzi. No Dusky Warbler P. fuscatus was observed on land either...
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Monthly marathon

01 October 1994
Comments Other The fifth photograph in this seventh Marathon was named as: Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus (84%), Mediterranean Shearwater P. yelkouan (9%), Bulwer's Petrel Bulweria bulwerii (5%) and Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis (2%), with one vote f...
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