May 25 2011
Slender-billed curlew sighted on Stronsay
John Holloway, Stronsay’s ornithologist, will be on Radio Orkney at 7:30am (local time) tomorrow morning (Thursday) talking about a rare visitor to Stronsay. It’s a slender-billed curlew. John tells me that the species is considered to be extinct by some authorities and there is a major ‘push’ on at present to find the breeding grounds in Northern Russia - if they do still exist!
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