Monthly marathon

01 April 2000 Comments Other February's mystery bird (plate 71, repeated here as plate 116) is clearly a medium-sized leaf-warbler Phylloscopus. There are no obvious wing-bars or tertial tips, and apparently no central crown stripe, so we can immediately rule out a number of speci...
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News and Comment

01 April 2000 Comments News and comment This summer's British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water will take place from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th August (put it in your diary now). Last year's Fair raised the record sum of £130,000 for conservation projects associated with the coastal forest...
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Notes

01 April 2000 Comments Notes On several dates between 7th May and 1st June 1995, in my garden in Wilmslow, Cheshire, I observed interesting behaviour by House Sparrows Passer domesticus.Typically, a sparrow would follow about 5 cm behind a group of Common Starlings Sturnus vulgari...
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