Our Rarer Birds Being Studies in Ornithology Oology
Our Rarer Birds Being Studies in Ornithology Oology
Charles Dixon
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It is an active little creature, incessantly in motion when the tide is ebbing and flowing ; but sometimes at high water it may be seen standing on the narrow banks of mud waiting for the strand to become exposed again. The Eedshank becomes particularly lively at dusk, and much of its food must be obtained by moonlight. Numbers of these birds are caught in the nets placed to catch the different kinds of wild-fowl that wander up and down the coast and over the shallow waters. Its food in winter ...is principally composed of sand worms, marine insects, and the inmates of various small shells ; but in summer it lives on insects and larvae, and in some districts will even eat bil- berries. At the first sign of spring the Redshanks quit the coasts and visit their breeding-places on the higher ground. This may not be far away from their winter quarters on the fens and broads of the low-lying counties, or on the moors above the sandy coasts. Very often the birds visit the distant mountain lakes and flat stretches of bog amongst the hills, miles and miles away from the sea.
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