Monthly Marathon

01 November 1998 Comments Other Although also named as Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola, Kentish Plover Charadrius alexandrinus, Greater Sand Plover C. leschenaultii, Caspian Plover C. asiaticus, Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola, White-tailed Lapwing Vanellus leucurus and Isab...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1995 Comments Other We have a winner! Peter Sunesen (Denmark) has won his choice of SUNBIRD holiday in Africa, Asia or North America by achieving a 17-in-a-row sequence of correct identifications, one more than any other competitor. The two birds in photograph number 109 ...
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Looking Back

01 November 1995 Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'A List of the Migratory Birds of Provence . . . Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor, and Lanius meridionalis, arrive in March and April, leave in September. These two species are rare. 'Hedge Accentor, Accentor modular...
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