Monthly marathon

01 June 1998
Comments Other We have a winner! A new 'Marathon' starts now. Read on. The preening bird (plate 30) was named as: Little Crake Porzana parva (24%), Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago (23%), Long-toed Stint Calidris subminuta (13%), Pectoral Sandpiper C. melanotos (12%)...
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Looking Back

01 June 1998
Comments Other Fifty years ago: 'From the summer of 1940 until May 1945 we were in various prison camps scattered over Germany and Poland . . . Crested Larks (Galerida c. cristatd) were seen wherever we stayed and often bred within a hundred yards of us, but always o...
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Monthly marathon

01 August 1994
Comments Other PLATE 60: Griffon Vulture Gyps fulvus (60%), Monk Vulture Aegypius monachus (31%), Lappet-faced Vulture Torgos tracheliotos (7%), and other vultures (2%). PLATE 72: Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus (83%), Grey Phalarope P. fulicarius (16%), and ...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 August 1994
Comments Other In August 1969, there was the start of a huge influx of Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea with over 19,000 bird-days from 250 localities. The peak came on 31st August, when there were at least 3,500 present. The all-time ringing total was more than...
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