Monthly marathon

01 August 1999 Comments Other The affinities of the dumpy, small-billed bird depicted in June's photograph (plate 104, repeated here as plate 159) may not have been immediately obvious to some readers, the bird perhaps bearing a resemblance to a dove Streptopelia or even a lark (Al...
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Fifty years ago

01 January 1982 Comments Other On three days during April 1921,1 had the pleasure of watching, often at very close quarters--and so clearly identifying---an Alpine Accentor, Prunella c. collaris, on the Headland at Seaford. The first meeting was on 7th April, when, as I walked the b...
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