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As the tide falls: an hour at Brancaster Staithe

10,000 Birds

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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