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Mystery photographs

01 September 1983 Comments Main paper This remarkable portrait of a flying duck, clearly of the genus Anas, displays nearly all the major plumage areas unusually well. Size cannot be judged, but the underwing pattern and the shape and weight of the bill all point to a teal. The pale-toned ...

Points of view. 4. Telescopes and tripods

01 September 1983 Comments Main paper The chances are that I am a not-very-knowledgeable, even a mere 'weekend' birdwatcher: at least the 'Binoculars and telescopes survey' (Brit. Birds 76: 155-161) would infer so, as I neither own nor use a tripod with my telescope. Still, it is well wort...

Personalities. 32. David Hunt

01 September 1983 Comments Main paper David Hunt FIELD CHARACTERS Plumage, size and jizz: variable. In my field sketch of 14 years ago, he looks like portly Beatle. Present plumage much fresher (I suspect improved preening, or interesting case of reversed moult). Difficult to age. Looks yo...

The Chough in Britain and Ireland

01 September 1983 Comments Main paper The Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax has a global range that extends from the Atlantic seaboard of Europe to the Himalayas. Vaurie (1959) mentioned seven subspecies and gave the range of P. p. pyrrhocorax as Britain and Ireland only. He considered the Br...

The 'Marsh Hawk' problem

01 September 1983 Comments Main paper A 'ringtail' harrier at Cley, Norfolk, from October 1957 to April 1958 was identified as a first-year Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus of the Nearctic subspecies hudsonius (previously known as Marsh Hawk in North America, but now called Northern Harrier) bec...

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