Monthly Marathon

01 December 1998 Comments Other The bird in the seventh stage (plate 110) was identified as a wheatear Oenanthe by everyone, and most entrants (87%) correctly named it as Red-tailed O. xanthopryma (it was photographed by Colin Richardson in the United Arab Emirates in November 1989)....
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Looking Back

01 December 1998 Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'The Cirl Bunting in Breconshire. At the present time the Cirl Bunting (Emberiza cirlus) is a firmly established resident in this county, and is to be found in at least five or six localities . . . I found a nest containing four ...
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Fifty years ago

01 December 1981 Comments Other 'In your issue fo rMarch, 1931 (Vol. XXIV, p. 302), you allowed rne to give the results of some experiments with Potter traps and to announce that these traps could be obtained from Messrs. Ciceri & Co. Ltd., 39-43 Wharfdale Road, King's Cross, Lon...
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