Turnstone feeding on dead sheep.--On ist March 1964,8 day of heavy mist, we were walking along the shore at Steart Point, Somer set, when we came across the carcase of a sheep. A Carrion Crow Corvus corone and two Great Black-backed Gulls Larus marinttsflewfrom it and settled a short" distance away. Part of the sheep's abdomen had been eaten away and on closer inspection we were surprised to see the...
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