BB eye – Petrels by night

01 April 2021 Comments Editorials In June 2012, Pol Dewulf and I travelled to Pico, in the Azores, to photograph the endemic orchids. On Pico, we learnt about a colony of Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris borealis and were recommended to visit the colony at night, when the birds ...
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Looking back

01 April 2004 Comments Other `Semi-palmated Sandpiper in Norfolk.­­ On July 19th, 1953, an unusual wader was observed on Arnold's Marsh, Cley, Norfolk, by P. R. Clarke, who pointed it out to P. D. Kirky, and R. A. Richardson. It was subsequently watched for some hours at a f...
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Monthly marathon

01 December 1993 Comments Other Blue Chaffinch Fringilla teydea (75%) Yellow-throated Sparrow Petronia xanthocollis (8%) Common Chaffinch F. coelebs (7%) House Sparrow Passer domesticus (6%) with a few votes for Snowfinch Montifiingilla nivalis, Trumpeter Finch Bucanetes githageneus ...
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