Monthly marathon

01 February 2000
Comments Other Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus, Northumberland, September 1993 he ninth stage of the competition featured two photographs of the same species (December's plates 283 & 284, repeated here as 69 & 70), in both of which it appears `headless'. Si...
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Looking back

01 February 2000
Comments Other ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO: `Migration of the Ring Ouzel (Cinclus aquaticus) [Turdus torquatus].- The number of ring ouzels passing southward this autumn has been astonishing. Large flocks were seen continually on the downs [at Lewes, East Sussex]...
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