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 June 1993
Comments Other STAGE 1 (plate 18): Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (71%), Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata (10%), Greater Yellowlegs T. melanoleuca (4%) and Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (3%), with 2 % or less each for 12 other species. STAGE 2 (plate 32): Leach's Sto...
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Twenty-five years ago...

01 June 1993
Comments Other On 13th June 1968, 'The first recorded British nest of the Bluethroat Luscinia svecica was found in the Moray Basin faunal area of Scotland' by Dr J. J. D. Greenwood, now Director of the BTO. (Brit. Birds 61: 524). Earlier, three LesserGrey Shrike...
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