Monthly marathon

01 April 1990
Comments Main paper January's problem photograph (plate 10) was named as Shore Lark Eremophila alpestris (59%) , Lesser Short-toed Lark Calandrella rufescens (12%), Snow Bunting Plectrophenax nivalis (6%), Short-toed Lark C. brachydactyla (4%), Skylark...
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Recent reports

01 April 1990
Comments News and comment These unchecked reports refer to the period 10th February to 15th March 1990. White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla Singly at five localties in Norfolk and Suffolk. Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus Blyth Estuary (Northumberland), 12th March. Bonaparte'...
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News and comment

01 April 1990
Comments News and comment Opinions expressed in this feature are not necessarily those of 'British Birds'. R & M Conference 1990. The 22nd BTO Ringing and Migration Conference, attracting 341 participants, was held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, from 5th-...
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Request

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Systematic counts of Lapwings or Golden Plovers. I am keen to collate information regarding seasonal changes in the numbers of wintering Lapwings Vanellus vanellus and Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria, and the timing of cold-weather emigrations by th...
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Announcements

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Young Ornithologists of the Year. The results of the 1989 competition, run as usual by the Young Ornithologists' Club and sponsored by British Birds, were as follows: JUNIOR (under 10 years old) 1st HUW PRIOR (8) of Chichester, West Sussex 2nd CAROLINE...
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Fieldwork action

01 April 1990
Comments Editorials Atlas fieldwork in the Irish Republic: grants for expeditions and job vacancies To ensure coverage of the New Breeding Atlas is complete by the end of the 1990 field season, the BTO is providing grants towards the expenses of Atlas fieldwork expedition...
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Notes

01 April 1990
Comments Notes Attempted piracy by Black-headed Gull on Rednecked Grebe Peter Boardman's account of a Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus harassing a Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristalus (Brit. Birds 80: 114-115) recalled the following. On 26th January 1987, on a...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1990
Comments Main paper The bird in question is clearly a small passerine. The hefty bill is indicative of a lark (Alaudidae), finch (Fringillidae), bunting (Emberizidae) or sparrow (Passeridae). Bunting can go for a start, as the structure of the bill is all wrong: our ...
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Seventy-five years ago

01 April 1990
Comments Other 'The two tapering central tail-feathers in Richardson's Skua project about three inches, those in the Pomatorhine about four inches, and those in Buffon's about seven or eight inches, but in Richardson's we find them rarely, if ever, broken, seldom in ...
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Obituary: Horace Gundry Alexander

01 April 1990
Comments Main paper When Horace Alexander died in Pennsylvania on 30th September 1989, aged 100, he left a reputation in ornithology as the complete enthusiast. 'HG', as he was referred to in distinction from his also-famous birdwatching brother 'WB', took down-to-earth p...
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