How to tell Birds on the Wing
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"The seamew’s lonely laughter
Flits down the flowing wave;
The green scarts follow after
The surge where cross-tides rave."—Fiona Macleod.
Falcons—golden eagle—harriers and sparrow-hawk—The heron—The cormorant, shag, and gannet—The petrels—Guillemots, razor-bills, and puffins—The ducks—The great crested grebe and dabchick—The pigeons—The “plover tribe”—The gulls and terns—The game birds.
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