Mystery photographs

01 May 1978
Comments Main paper The white face, generally grey-and-white appearance and long neck are all noticeable features, but perhaps the most striking characteristic of the elegant wader in plate 79 (shown reduced here) is its long, very thin and delicate, straight bi...
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Personalities. 14. Nick Riddiford

01 May 1978
Comments Main paper Anyone who has ever stayed at a bird observatory knows that wardens tend to be slightly eccentric. Perhaps this is an occupational disease, or it may be that such places provide fertile ground for the flowering of latent tendencies. In the case of Nick...
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Bird Photograph of the Year

01 May 1978
Comments Main paper The 160 entries for the 1977 competition were judged by Eric Hosking, Michael W. Richards, I. J. Ferguson-Lees and Dr J. T. R. Sharrock. The winning photograph and six runners-up were as follows: 1. Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus (Pet...
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