Mystery photographs

01 February 1982 Comments Main paper The grass provides scale, and last month's mystery bird is clearly a largish warbler. The first step in narrowing the identification further should be to determine the genus. The bill is not particularly long nor obviously wide-based, so thou...
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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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