01 March 2001CommentsOther
ON January 17th, 1926, under twenty-three degrees of frost, I drove seventy miles on the chance of seeing an "eagle," which, for the past three weeks, had been frequenting some woods in north Essex.
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01 March 2001CommentsOther
Another gull (Laridae), obviously! My commiserations to the unfortunate participants in this competition who do not immediately jump up and down with excitement over the prospect of yet another gull challenge, assuming, that is, that there are some lef...
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01 February 1989CommentsOther
It was indeed a Long-legged Buzzard, photographed by Paul Doherty in Israel in December 1987. After four puzzle photographs in this third competition, 68 contestants are still in the running, with all four species identified correctly. Perhap...
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01 February 1989CommentsOther
'INCURSION OF WAXWINGS. A LARGE number of Waxwings (Ampelis garrulus) appear to have visited Great Britain this winter . . . and Herr F. Tischler records an invasion of Waxwings in East Prussia in the autumn of 1913. Not only have Waxwings been numerou...
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