staying at Seascale, Cumberland, in August, 1937, I discovered a place on the coast at Sellafield, where quantities of sea-birds were always to be seen. In addition to thousands of Curlews and Oyster-catchers and many Redshanks, Lapwings, Turnstones and other Waders, there were large flocks of Gulls and Terns, and I was very much surprised to find that some hundreds of the Gulls were adult Kittiwa...

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