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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...

Identification, taxonomy and distribution o fGreater and Lesser Sand Plovers

01 April 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Separating Greater Charadrius leschenaultii and Lesser Sand Plovers C. mongolus is far from simple, especially since the various subspecies of the two show some overlap in morphology and biometrics (as well as geographical di...

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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...

Taxonomy and identification of chiffchaffs in the Western Palearctic

01 September 1998 Comments Main paper ...

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Identification, taxonomy and distribution o fGreater and Lesser Sand Plovers

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Taxonomy and identification of chiffchaffs in the Western Palearctic

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