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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Monthly marathon

01 December 1989
Comments Other The bird in plate 285 was named as: Skylark Alauda arvensis (72%) Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (7%) Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (6%) Bimaculated Lark M. bimaculata (5%) Short-toed Lark C. brachydactyla (4%) Woodlark Lullula arb...
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Seventy-five years ago...

01 December 1989
Comments Other 'BIRDS MIGRATING NORTHWARDS IN OCTOBER. UNDER the above heading Mr. J. H. Gurney in the November number of British Birds (p. 143), records a large migration of birds taking place over the parishes of Northrepps, Overstrand, and Cromer in Norfolk, on th...
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