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Bird Illustrator of the Year' and 'The Richard Richardson Award'

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper Having presented the prizes for several years, Keith Shackleton joined the permanent judges and soon discovered what a lengthy and difficult exercise it is to sort out winners from 55 artists submitting 220 drawings. The winners were as follows:Two art...

Identification of Stints and Peeps

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper The precision and supreme artistry of Lars Jonsson's stint paintings (plates 113 to 120) fully match the complexities of the subject. They bear the closest inspection, and provide a further major advance in stint identification, building especially on ...

Photospot. 4. Lesser Golden Plover

01 July 1984 Comments Main paper Both photographs show how long-legged, long-winged and long-billed Lesser Golden Plovers Pluvialis dominica are compared with our Golden Plover P. apricaria. The Nearctic photograph (plate 130) shows the typical juvenile which we have come to expect in...

Landbirds over the North Atlantic: unpublished records 1961-65 and thoughts a decade later

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper In October 1962, while travelling from New York to Southampton in R.M.S. Mauretania, I was fortunate to witness a fall of over 130 American landbirds of 34 species (Durand 1963). This was the highlight of five years of voyaging across the North Atlantic i...

Green Heron in Cornwall in 1889

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper Until the early i95o's, leading British and Irish ornithologists were notoriously reluctant to admit the possibility of natural transatlantic crossings by landbirds. This was the attitude of Howard Saunders, one of the most influential ornithologists of t...

Flight identification of European raptors

01 October 1972 Comments Main paper ...

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