Common Sandpiper - 1980s winter atlas

Friday, September 16, 2011 at 12:04PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1980s BTO winter atlas, Common Sandpiper, GHR, Wader

The BTO winter atlas showed that Common Sandpipers were present in six estuarine 10km squares during the winters of 1981-82, 1982-82 and 1983-84.

The darkest colour represents 2 birds seen a day, the lighter blue represents one bird in a day. The UK is at the northern extremity of the winter range of this species.

Graham Rees 

Article originally appeared on Birds in Pembrokeshire (http://pembsbirds.squarespace.com/).