Monthly marathon

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...
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News and Comment

01 April 2000
Comments News and comment This summer's British Birdwatching Fair at Rutland Water will take place from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th August (put it in your diary now). Last year's Fair raised the record sum of £130,000 for conservation projects associated with the coastal forest...
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Mystery photographs

01 January 1992
Comments Main paper When confronted by a relatively plain species, there is an understandable tendency to try to bypass a disciplined analysis of the subtler aspects of structure and plumage, and to base identification on one or two more-immediate and supposedly 'key...
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