Monthly marathon

01 January 2004 Comments Other A novice birdwatcher looking at Monthly Marathon photo number 201 (Brit. Birds 96: plate 245, repeated here as plate 25) might wonder if the bird depicted in the photograph is a wader, with the stripes on the mantle possibly suggesting a species of sni...
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Recent reports

01 February 2000 Comments News and comment This summar y of unchecked reports covers 13th December 1999 to 16th January 2000. Great Shearwater Puffinus gravis Willen Lake (Buckinghamshire), 27th December. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Long-stayer at Martin Mere (Lancashire) until 16th Januar y; He...
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Mystery photographs

01 April 1983 Comments Main paper Last month's warbler (plate 57, repeated here) should have been identified instantly by readers with long memories, for Irene Neufeldt's photograph originally appeared in British Birds some 15 years ago (60: plate 31a). Let us, however, start from scra...
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