Looking back

01 January 2003 Comments Other ON THE DECREASE OF BLACKGAME IN SCOTLAND.­ Miss L. J. Rintoul and Miss E. V. Baxter have collected a valuable series of comparative observations, derived from a large number of correspondents and published records, on this subject... From the reports ...
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Monthly marathon

01 January 2003 Comments Other Bird identification, just like certain modern technologies, has developed immensely in the last decade, and keeping up with either can often be a real struggle. Thankfully, thoughts of having to use new `fieldcraft' techniques such as scanning or resiz...
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Fifty years ago

01 January 1981 Comments Other 'In 1920 I spent the last ten days of September in Scilly, and was there lor ten days from September 12th to 21st this year--ten years later... Some idea of the limited number of species to be seen in Scilly may be gathered from the fact that we observ...
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