Monthly marathon

01 September 1998
Comments Other Almost nobody was fooled by the Common Coot Fullica atra in plate 88, photographed in Shetland by Wendy Dickson in April 1998, although 6% plumped for Red-knobbed Coot F. cristata and the pale flight feathers deceived one entrant into naming it as Redc...
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Mystery photographs

01 November 1977
Comments Main paper The fine bill, distinctive face pattern and rounded crown give the warbler (plate 123, page 456, repeated at reduced size here) the look of a typical Phylloscopus. Without wing-bars or prominent supercilium, it looks rather ordinary, and there is nothi...
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