Monthly marathon

01 March 1998 Comments Other The bunting Emberiza {Brit. Birds 90: plate 208) was named as Cirl E. cirlus (52%), Yellowhammer E. citrinella (29%), Rustic E. rustica (10%), Pine E. leucocephalos (5%) and Yellow-breasted E. aureola (4%). It was a female Cirl Bunting, photographed in...
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Looking Back

01 March 1998 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'The name of Witherby has been inseparably linked with British Birds since the journal's foundation in 1907. H. F. Witherby, who conceived the original idea and secured the support of his fellow ornithologists for its launching, ...
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Fifty years ago

01 May 1981 Comments Other 'The bodies of three Great Crested Grebes and a Dabchick were found frozen stifTin the pack-ice . . . the birds had travelled under the ice, had been imprisoned and drowned when they strove to reach the surface . . . Five-and-twenty years ago a somewha...
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