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Birds seen in salt-marshes & estuaries in the UK: Avocet |
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Avibase - Pied Avocet,
Recurvirostra avosetta http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp?pg=summary&lang=EN& id=EE900088C42B71A5&ts=1120472369893/ Offers long list of alternative names for the pied avocet including order, family, scientific, and protonym. Also find name in twelve languages. |
| BBC: Home - Havergate Island
Adventure http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/nature/stephen_dean/island_adventure/island_adventure2.shtml Find history of island, now owned by Society for Protection of Birds, off British coast with success in breeding avocets. See colour image of bird nesting and a hide. |
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British Garden Birds - Avocet http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/album/images/avocet1.jpg Begin to recognise the avocet’s bold black and white markings, elegant shape, and long up-turned beak with this large colour photograph. |
| British Garden Birds - Avocet
Fledgling http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/album/images/avocet2.jpg Help identify the differences between the adult and fledgling avocet with this colour image of bird on sea shore. Records photographer’s name. |
| Lincolnshire Bird Club -
Avocet http://www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk/rare_birds/avocet_2.htm Find out about the dramatic black and white markings on the avocet with set of two colour images. Catalogues location in UK where shot and date. |
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Lincolnshire Bird Club - Avocet,
Recurvirostra avosetta http://www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk/rare_birds/avocet.htm Read the conclusions of bird count in UK wetlands and peruse fascinating report about single-parent family after mother dies. Includes colour image. |
| Oriental Bird Images - Pied
Avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
http://www.orientalbirdimages.org/photographers.php?p=17&action=birderimages& Bird_Image_ID=10049&Birder_ID=376/ Pore over close-up of the pied avocet taken in the Godrej Mangroves, Mumbai, India. Offers date shot, photographer, and family/group. |
| Paxton Pits - Avocet http://www.paxton-pits.org.uk/species/avocet/ Check out data file on wader that made come-back to Britain post WW2, but is rarely sighted at Paxton Pitts nature reserve. Study notes records sightings 1999 and 2004. |
| South East Essex RSPB -
Avocets of Southend, The http://www.southendrspb.co.uk/avocet.htm Tells of disturbing incident of abandoned nests and missing eggs. Read about previous success story and adoption of bird as society’s symbol. |
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Birds on salt-marshes & estuaries in UK
