Tuesday
27 October 2015
A
RARE bird has been spotted at Farlington Marshes – only the sixth time it has
been spotted there in decades.
According
to Hampshire Wildlife Trust, birders at the marshes were lucky enough to see a
white-rumped sandpiper, an American wading bird that breeds in Arctic Canada
and winters in South America.
The
species is an annual visitor to the British Isles, but since the 1908s it has
usually only seen in Hampshire every five or six years. The weekend sighting
marks the sixth at Farlington in recent decades.
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