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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Mystery Photographs

01 June 1984
Comments Main paper Last month's mystery bird (plate 67. repeated here) is obviously an immature gull, and all the 'black-headed', 'black-backed' or 'white-winged' gulls can be quickly eliminated. It is obviously either a Herring Gull Larus argentatus, a Common Gull ...
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Notes

01 January 1979
Comments Notes Success of artificial island nest-sites for divers  The breeding success of divers Gavia in south mainland Argyll has been very poor For some years (e.g. one young from eight pairs): too low to ensure maintenance of the populatio...
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