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Title: The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Vertebrates Vertebrates
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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by Coward at Marbury,and by Dr. M. S. Wood at Gatley near Cheadle. We have seen birds many times in August and September, singly or in twos and threes, often in the company of Dunlins, on the border of Marbury Mere near Northwich, where a sandspit at the mouth of a brook is a favourite resting place for migratory waders. The earliest date on which we have seen Ringed Plovers on the mere is August 5th, the latest September 8th ; the birds are both adult and immature.We have seen an example that was shot at Poynton Pool.On August 7th, 1899, Oldham saw one at Redes Mere, and on August 27th, 1905, an adult bird on the mud at Bosley Reservoir ; it had probably dropped out of a flock of passing waders, since, in addition to a number of Lapwings, a Greenshank and a Ruff were on the mud. Ringed Plovers on migration sometimes pass over mid-Cheshire in autumn ;Oldham heard several passing at Knutsford in 1902 o nthe night of August 13th, and on the 29th Coward heard birds calling as they passed over Bowdon. »
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BIRDS 379 KENTISH PLOVER. Aegialitis cantiana (Latham). Has been once observed. The Kentish Plover is almost unknown in the west of England north of Devon, but it has occurred once on the spring migration in Cheshire. On April 29th, 1908, Coward saw two in company with six Dunlins on the margin of the mere at Marbury near Northwich. He identified them by their incomplete pectoral bands, black legs and bills, sandy backs, and by their size as compared with that of the Dunlins. The birds, a male and a female or immature bird,were exceedingly tame and allowed him to approach within a dozen yards. In the paler bird the cheeks, frontal band,and patch in front of the wing, which in the male were black, were of a darker brown than the rest of the sandy plumage, but the lores, as in the male, were black. The birds were paler than Ringed Plovers. On this date—April 29th—there were a number of passing migrants about the mere which were not there two days later, when the Plovers had also gone. Amongst the

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