Looking back

01 January 1999 Comments Other `I have been fortunate in being able to arrange for the addition of Mr. J. D. Wood, B.A., M.B.O.U., to the British Birds staff. Mr. Wood is an assistant master at Leighton Park School, Reading... and... will take over most of the routine editorial work...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 1999 Comments Other In response to suggestions from several subscribers, we plan in future to provide a brief summary of the identification features visible in each `Monthly marathon' photograph (Brit. Birds 91: plate 156). These will normally be written by one of SUNBIRD...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1993 Comments Other No trap, it was a Little Gull, photographed by Axel Halley in Germany in October 1988 (SCORE 6). The first person to achieve a score of 500 will win a birding trip with SUNBIRD to Africa, Asia or North America.223. Sixth 'Monthly marathon', using new r...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 November 1993 Comments Other 'The British Trust for Ornithology has announced that its endeavours to obtain financial backing for the ambitious project of mapping the breeding distributions of British and Irish birds have been rewarded. The Leverhulme Trust Fund has granted to the...
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