Looking back

01 March 2002 Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘WILLOW-TITS IN LANARKSHIRE.––Mr. Walter Stewart contributes an interesting article to the Scottish Natu- ralist (1926, pp. 147-150) on the distribution, appear- ance, habitat and nesting of t...
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Looking back

01 March 2002 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago: ‘Bald Ibis breeding Work has started on construction of special cages for captive breeding of the last Bald Ibises Geronticus eremita in Eurasia, at the Turkish village of Birecik. The cages, w...
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Monthly marathon

01 May 1989 Comments Other The sixth puzzle picture (Brit. Birds 81: plate 18) was clearly far too easy: 98% of entrants correctly identified it as a Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps, the remaining 2% all misnaming it as Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis. T h e seven...
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