Monthly Marathon

01 May 2001 Comments Other Although we are presented with a relatively good photograph, the identification of the bird in plate 64 (repeated here as plate 142) is far from straightforward. Clearly, we are dealing with a tern Sterna/Chlidonias... ...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 December 1984 Comments Other 'Firstly, when the bird is hatched, it is either entirely naked or has a DOWN-PLUMAGE. This plumage is succeeded by what we shall term the JUVENILE PLUMAGE. Dr. Dwight has coined the word "Juvenal" to describe this plumage, but this is an "Americanism"...
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