Monthly marathon

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper Entrants obviously found this an easier problem than we had expected. We thought that many more readers would be led astray by the streaked (almost striped) lower breast/belly of this Redwing, showing the dark and strongly marked underparts of the Icel...
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Mystery photographs

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper No matter at what range, the bird in plate 124 (repeated here) would always look like a huge raptor. With that shape, falcons and accipiters are not considered, even momentarily. Most British birdwatchers get very little experience of large raptor...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper The exceedingly high standard of entries led to the judges commenting: 'It is a real privilege to see such superb pictures'. Time and again, as the transparencies were projected, one judge or another would say, ' Oh, I wish I'd taken that one!' Last ye...
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European news

01 June 1990
Comments Main paper With this twenty-seventh selection, we are again delighted to be able to include records from 27 countries. We are pleased to be able to draw attention to the addition of the Byelorussian SSR and Jordan to our list. New contacts in unrepresented West P...
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