Monthly marathon

01 December 2004 Comments Other When I first saw Monthly Marathon photo number 209 in print (Brit. Birds 97: plate 265, repeated here as plate 380), I wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but as I wasn't expecting to have to write the solution, I didn't devote much thought to the probl...
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Fifty years agoÉ

01 May 1982 Comments Other 'On 11th August 1931, and the next few days, a CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax c. carbo) created much interest by taking up a position each evening on the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral... An injured WOODCOCK (Scolopax r. rusticola) was picked up alive on 11th...
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