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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Seventy-five years ago

01 July 1985
Comments Other 'Of the birds there was no doubt, and in spite of my terribly bad ear for distinguishing closely allied bird-notes, I was at once able to pick out the song of the male from the chattering chorus of Reed- and Sedge-Warblers. I will at once confess to an...
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