The competition to supply an apt caption to Hans Schouten's photograph of a Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo (Brit. Birds 80: plate 331, repeated here) produced a wide range of suggestions. The following are our top choices.
1. " / haven't touched your ****** rainbow trout--look!" (Dr Mick Marquiss)
2. "Look! No wings!" (Lord Glendevon)
3. "Oh, no! Not fish AGAIN!" (Kieran Sharrock)
4. "Who said anything about Pisa? I'd settle for a perch any day." (M. H. Dunn)
5. "Timber!" (Mrs Margaret Smith, and Bernard Webb, independently)
6. "****** water-skiers!" (D. G. P. Chatfield)
The winner, Dr Mick Marquiss, will receive a prize of copies of Frontiers of Bird Identification and The 'British Birds' List of Birds of the Western Palearctic.
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Issue 12
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