The Birds of the British Isles, Volume 9Oliver and Boyd, 1953 - Birds |
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adult Africa Alaska alpina American Shore Birds appear April Arctic arrival August autumn bar-tailed godwit bill Birds of Ireland black-tailed godwit breeding birds breeding grounds Britain British Birds British Isles brown buff Calidris chicks clutches coast colour common snipe curlew sandpiper dunlin east Eskimo curlew farther feathers feeding feet female flight flocks four eggs grass Greenland grey phalarope Handbook Histories of North Ibis incubation Island jack snipe Jourdain July June Lake little stint male marshes migration minutilla naturalists nest North American Shore northern Norway noted numbers observed occasionally occur October ornithologists pair passage migrant pectoral sandpiper plover purple sandpipers rare records red-necked phalarope reeves reported ringed River ruffs Salomonsen sanderling Scotland seen September Shetland southern species specimens spring Sweden tail Temminck's stint Ticehurst tundra turnstones underparts upperparts waders whimbrel wings winter quarters woodcock