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 April 1990
Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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