Monthly marathon

01 February 2003
Comments Other I think most people will recognise the slim, brownish passerine with heavily streaked underparts in photograph 193 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 322, repeated here as plate 58) as some kind of pipit Anthus. That much is easy, but pipits are one group...
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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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