. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . t issometimes written wiek-a-wiekj it has also a whistling/^e/^r-r^/,which perhaps is the note said to resemble that of the feeding, a flock keeps up a low, rather musical the shore it often runs quickly, but at other times is asdeliberate as the Dunlin, especially when working the pools atlow tide. Marine invertebrates are its food on the shore, butinland it will eat fresh-water molluscs and insects. The tanksin sewage farms attract it more frequently than is generallysupposed ; on one farm near Manchester birds were pre
. The birds of the British Isles and their eggs . t issometimes written wiek-a-wiekj it has also a whistling/^e/^r-r^/,which perhaps is the note said to resemble that of the feeding, a flock keeps up a low, rather musical the shore it often runs quickly, but at other times is asdeliberate as the Dunlin, especially when working the pools atlow tide. Marine invertebrates are its food on the shore, butinland it will eat fresh-water molluscs and insects. The tanksin sewage farms attract it more frequently than is generallysupposed ; on one farm near Manchester birds were presentone autumn for five weeks. Captain A. W. Boyd, who watchedthe varying numbers, counted nineteen one day, but I was notlucky enough to see so large a party. All those that I saw werebuft-breasted birds of the year. On this same farm CaptainBoyd saw a single bird in May. In its breeding dress the Curlew-Sandpiper has the upperparts chestnut, variegated with black and grey ; the wing-coverts show white margins, and the wings are ashy grey ; the.
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