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HAILSHAM SEAGULL

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Nov 9, 2009

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• Jan 12, 2020

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Spotted this little bird on the beach today at Eastbourne, any twitchers got an idea what it is please?

 

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PILTDOWN MAN

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Hurst Green

• Jan 12, 2020

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Jordie lass with no clothes on

 

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Bodian

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Cumbria

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Ringed Plover

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/wading-birds/ringed-plover

 

Algernon

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Newmarket.

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The attachment is a Jackdoor.

 

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Habitual User

Oct 18, 2006

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Worthing

• Jan 12, 2020

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That is a Turnstone or a Ringed Plover. Can’t see the length of the beak.

 

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Bodian

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Algernon said:

The attachment is a Jackdoor.

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Like it!

 

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Si Gull

Way Down South

Mar 18, 2008

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On top of the world

• Jan 12, 2020

• #7

Bodian said:

Ringed Plover

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/wading-birds/ringed-plover

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Is the right answer.

 

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HAILSHAM SEAGULL

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Thank you all, Mrs HS 's bird book has confirmed it is a Ringed Plover, we also saw Turnstones there too

 

GT49er

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Gloucester

• Jan 12, 2020

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Bodian said:

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Looks more like a backdoor to me.