Monthly marathon

01 March 2000
Comments Other January's bird (plate 32, repeated here as plate 90) was a brown, streaky thing and, just to make it more difficult (at least for birders used to field identification), it was in the hand. We can, however, quickly narrow down the hunt: the only West Pa...
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Looking back

01 March 2000
Comments Other The rarities for the year [1899] have not been many, and one cannot but be impressed with the growing scarcity of the Hobby [Falco subbuteo], Kestrel [F. tinnunculus], Magpie [Pica pica], Quail [Coturnix coturnix], Woodcock [Scolopax rusticola], Ruff [...
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Monthly marathon

01 April 1993
Comments Other The grebe in backview (plate 8) was named as: Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena (39%) Slavonian Grebe P. auritus (36%) Black-necked Grebe P. nigricollis (25%) It was a Slavonian Grebe, photographed in Lancashire in March 1990 by Steve Young. Of the l...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 April 1993
Comments Other 'A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti was trapped at a locality in southern England on 22nd July 1967 and then retrapped on 9th September; at the request of those concerned, locality and names of observers are being suppressed for the time being. All these r...
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