Monthly marathon

01 February 2000 Comments Other Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus, Northumberland, September 1993 he ninth stage of the competition featured two photographs of the same species (December's plates 283 & 284, repeated here as 69 & 70), in both of which it appears `headless'. Si...
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Looking back

01 February 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Migration of the Ring Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) [Turdus torquatus].- The number of ring ouzels passing southward this autumn has been astonishing. Large flocks were seen continually on the downs [at Lewes, East Sussex]...
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Monthly marathon

01 November 1986 Comments Other The bird in the second photograph (Brit. Birds 79: 418, plate 223) was identified by competition entrants as follows: Brambling Fringilla montifringilla (87%) Chaffinch F. coelebs (6%) Siskin Carduelis spinus (2%) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (2%) C...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 November 1986 Comments Other 'THE "BRITISH BIRDS" MARKING SCHEME, PROGRESS FOR 1911 AND SOME RESULTS BY H. F. WITHERBY. Once again I am able to report decided progress in the work of our enthusiastic band of "ringers". The number of birds marked has steadily increased until t...
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