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Godwits are bad ambassadors of conservation

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It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around.

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As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe

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A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. Many years ago the journal British Birds published a note from an observer who had watched Turnstones scavenging from a human corpse that had washed up on the tideline. These were dark-bellied birds from Russia. Pinkfooted Geese.

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Combined Beats’ list

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During last month, beat lists have been shared from Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Russia, UK, Canada and USA. Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Iceland Gull – Larus glaucoides.

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