Announcement

01 October 2001
Comments Editorials Thanks to the generosity of well-known artist and staunch BB-supporter Ian Wallace, BB is delighted to offer its subscribers the opportunity to purchase this fantastic DIMW original, featuring European Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria and No...
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Mystery Photographs

01 July 1984
Comments Editorials What we have in plate 89 (and repeated here) is a robust lark, standing on a rock, with the breeze creating a 'black hole' in its breast and perhaps exaggerating its crest. From the relative size of its bill and its legs, it is not a small bird, and th...
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Mystery Photographs

01 May 1984
Comments Editorials Is this the easiest 'Mystery photographs' ever? The graduated tail-shape and long undertail-coverts indicate that this singing warbler is in the genus Locustella. The blotchy mottling on the breast immediately suggests River Warbler L.fluviatilis,...
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