Personalities. 16. S. C. Madge

01 August 1978
Comments Main paper When Steve Madge first saw the light of day at Tor Point, Cornwall, in the winter of 1948, his mother gained what must have been the prototype bundle of joy and British ornithology one of its more colourful characters. His early days were spe...
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Mystery photographs

01 August 1978
Comments Main paper From some tangled bushes, out pops a largish, dull warbler with prominent legs and an apparently enormous bill. It is obviously not a Phylloscopus or a Sylvia, so it is sensible to consider the genera Acrocephalus and Hippolais; the wide base to the bi...
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Mystery photographs

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper The set of the body, the length of the folded wings and tail, the small head and the clear supercilium may at first suggest that this wader (plate 11 on page 73) is a sandpiper of the genus Tringa. The back pattern, however, and also the size and shape...
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Personalities. 3. Richard Porter

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper ! first met Richard Porter at Dungeness in 1958, on a Junior Bird Recorders' Club ringing course. He was small, very enthusiastic and had a crewcut. The crewcut went, but he is still small and even more enthusiastic. Richard was born in London in 1943,...
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King Eider studies

01 March 1977
Comments Main paper The King Eider breeds on tundra, arriving at the nesting grounds as the ice begins to melt. Where its winter range overlaps with that of the Eider, mixed pairing may occur, resulting in occasional hybrids. These studies were made in Canada and Iceland&...
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