Monthly marathon

01 March 2003 Comments Other For most participants, the bird featured in Monthly Marathon photo number 194 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 347, repeated here as plate 97 was immediately apparent as a skua (Stercorariidae). Only a gull (Laridae) has similar structural proportions and overal...
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Seventy-Five Years Ago

01 June 1984 Comments Other 'May I trespass on your space to the extent of a few lines to draw the attention of readers of BRITISH BIRDS to a scheme for marking birds which we have just set afoot? This inquiry into bird migration is to be carried out from the Natural History Depa...
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