Monthly marathon

01 April 2002 Comments Other As reported in the March issue (Brit. Birds 95: 150-151), the longrunning eleventh `Marathon' was eventually won by Peter Sunesen, and a new one has now started. In order to give as many new competitors as possible a chance to enter the twelfth `Marath...
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Looking back

01 April 2002 Comments Other Seventy-five years ago:  ‘GOOSANDERS IN SHROPSHIRE. ON Saturday, February 12th, 1927, I had brought to me for identifi- cation an adult male Goosander (Mergus merganser) which had been shot, out of a pair, on the Severn b...
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Looking back

01 April 2002 Comments Other [From Ornithological Report From Norfolk for 1926, by B. B. Riviere] `The event of most outstanding interest to Norfolk ornithology in the year 1926, and one which seems likely to have an important bearing upon its future, was undoubtedly the purchase ...
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Monthly Marathon

01 April 1997 Comments Other December's scaly-plumaged bird was obviously a swift Apus, and most entrants (80%) identified it as a Common Swift A. apus; other suggestions were Pallid Swift A. pallidus (16%), Pacific Swift A. pacificus (3%) and White-rumped Swift A. caffer (1%). It...
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Looking Back

01 April 1997 Comments Other One hundred and fifty years ago: 'Occurrence of the Scops Eared Owl at the Scilly Islands.--I received yesterday [12th April 1847] from Mr. James, the steward of the lord-proprietor of the Scilly Islands, a very good specimen of the scops owl. It was r...
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