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 1988 Comments Other 'CAROLINA CRAKE IN OUTER HEBRIDES. AN immature male Carolina Crake (Porzana carolina) was shot by Mr. A. Blain (Galson Lodge, Stornoway), near Ness, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, on November 12th, 1913, and sent to the Natural History Museum in the flesh.' (B...
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