Ron Summers and his co-authors are correct in referring to the Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos as ‘a widespread breeding species in the uplands of northern and western Britain’ (Summers et al. 2019). Such is their status today, but we must not forget that they were once more widespread.
In 1888, H. G. Bull described the species as ‘common on all the principal streams
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