Monthly marathon

01 May 2000 Comments Other Oh, no! It's a not-verysharp photograph of a rather plain warbler (plate 91, repeated here as plate 137). The plainness and the general shape and lack of any marking save for a weak supercilium suggest one of the Phylloscopus warblers, perhaps one of t...
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Fifty years ago

01 July 1980 Comments Other 'NIGHT SOARING OF SWIFTS. Still there remains the question--do the birds come down and roost in the open? The only way to prove conclusively that they do not is to go up in an aeroplane and find them soaring in their aerial "park"--to cruise round the ...
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