Monthly marathon

01 October 2000 Comments Other ugust's photograph (plate 228, repeated here as plate 300) clearly shows a passerine and, from its location and stance, most observers probably immediately thought `bunting or finch', these families containing the contrastingly patterned species typica...
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Monthly Marathon

01 October 1998 Comments Other The fifth stage (plate 94) was named as Dunn's Lark Eremelauda dunni (46%), Calandra Lark Melanocorypha calandra (31%), Thick-billed Lark Rhamphocoris clotbey (8%), Black-crowned Sparrow-lark Eremopterix nigriceps (4%), Corn Bunting Miliaria calandra (...
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Looking Back

01 October 1998 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: 'ALDRIN AND DIELDRIN TO BE WITHDRAWN. Nearly four years ago the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals recommended that the use of aldrin and dieldrin as seed-dressings in the control of wheat-bulb fly should ...
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