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 June 1994 Comments Other With that wing-stretching wader (plate 43 in the March issue), the sixth 'Monthly marathon' has been won. It was identified as Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola (48%), Lesser Yellowlegs T. flavipes (36%) and seven other wader species. It was a Wood Sandpi...
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Twenty-five years ago

01 June 1994 Comments Other 'The status of the Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius. In 1967 about 230 pairs summered in England, an increase of 46% since 1962. The proportion of pairs north of a line from the Welland to the Severn increased from 41% in 1962 to 49% in 1967 and ...
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