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Mystery photographs

01 September 1989 Comments Main paper Our mystery wader, with its proportionately small head, bill longer than head, and longish neck and legs, is clearly a Tringa. At first glance, it looks like one of the larger species, but it is not always easy to judge the size of a bird simply by its...

Curlew Sandpipers in Britain and Ireland in autumn 1988

01 September 1989 Comments Main paper Curlew Sandpipers Calidris ferruginea breed in Arctic Siberia and, like many other waders, undertake long migrations to warmer, more southerly wintering areas. The latter are extensive, from Africa in the west, through the Indian Ocean and East In...

Lesser Crested Tern: new to Britain and Ireland

01 September 1989 Comments Main paper On the morning of 13th July 1982, John Chester and I were awaiting the arrival of ringers on the beach of Cymyran Bay, Anglesey, Gwynedd, using the time to count recently fledged Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea that were gathered along the shorelin...

Red-necked Stint: new to Britain and Ireland

01 September 1989 Comments Main paper On leaving my home on the outskirts of Hull, Humberside, on 23rd July 1986, the weather was fairly nasty: cool, overcast and raining, sometimes heavily. The choice me lay at Hornsea or visiting Blacktoft Sands RSPB Reserve; only at the last momen...