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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Monthly marathon

01 June 1991
Comments Other When Steve Young supplied the transparency of the wader featured as the sixth stage in this 'Marathon' (plate 7), the competition's compiler queried the photographer's identification, since the bird was 'obviously' a Little Stint Calidris minuta and no...
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