Monthly marathon

01 July 2001
Comments Other The long pointed wings and long, tapering, forked tail of the bird in Monthly Marathon number 177 (plate 109, repeated here as plate 198) will have been readily identifiable as a swift (Apodidae) to all but the most inexperienced of obser vers. The pho...
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Letters

01 July 2001
Comments Letters Moss (1998) appears to take human-induced global warming as a proven fact, despite quoting from the 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 1996) that the `balance of evidence now suggests that there is a discernible human in...
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Looking back

01 July 2001
Comments Other Seventy-five years ago: `GREAT AND BLUE TITMICE IN SKYE. IN a Practical Handbook of British Birds' I notice that the Great Titmouse (Parus major) is said to be only a rare visitor to Skye. It may be interesting therefore to record that I saw s...
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