Monthly marathon

01 December 2003 Comments Other Every so often, this competition includes something which initially defies identification. The bird depicted in plate 213, repeated here as plate 403, is one such individual, since it lacks any clear or familiar plumage features that would normally all...
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Monthly Marathon

01 June 1997 Comments Other April's warbler (plate 33) was photographed in an exotic location (in Portugal, by Dr Kevin Carlson, in June 1990) and a few competitors gambled on Spectacled Sylvia conspicillata, Subalpine S. cantillans, Desert S. nana or Barred S. nisoria, but, by a...
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Looking Back

01 June 1997 Comments Other Twenty-five years ago, in June/July 1972: '. . . after 10th June, a total of probably several hundred [Common Crossbills Loxia curvirostra] being reported in many parts of Britain from Shetland to Lundy [Devon] by the end of the month . . . The largest...
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