Looking back

01 June 2000 Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Occurrence of the Bohemian Waxwing [Bombycilla garrulus] near London.-I have notices of this bird having been killed last week [in mid January 1850] in many localities round London: Harrow-on-the-Hill, Kilburn (seven s...
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Monthly marathon

01 June 2000 Comments Other In theory, identification of April's wader (plate 117, repeated here as plate 180) should be fairly straightforward. It is obviously small and, judging by the colour and extent of the hooded appearance, it is in summer plumage. The upstretched wing is,...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 December 1983 Comments Other ' ON THE SONG OF THE WOOD-WARBLER; BY H. W. MAPLETON, B.A., M.B.O.U. IN May last, while availing myself of a very good opportunity of observing a Wood-Warbier in full song my attention was called to the fact that this bird has two distinct songs. As I ...
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