Robin Prytherch

14 March 2011
Comments Other This is a taster of a potential new feature in BB. The idea is to bring you an insight into the lives of key figures in modern-day ornithology, by posing a standard set of questions - some serious, some less so. We decided it to trial it on our w...
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Monthly Marathon

01 May 1997
Comments Other The members of the tideline gang (plate 7), photographed by Richard T. Mills in Co. Cork in September 1975, were correcdy identified as Common Redshanks Tringa totanus, Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus and a Bla...
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Looking Back

01 May 1997
Comments Other One hundred years ago: 'Although the Stone Curlew [Burhinus oedicnemus] is a bird of extreme wariness, it is possible on Thetford Warren to get within ten yards of flocks numbering from twelve to twenty in the months of May and June. In the "Fauna of N...
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