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GREAT SNIPE
There have been a frankly incredible 5 records of Great
Snipe in the county, although one wonders how many of those would measure up
against modern day scrutiny?
An article on the 1979 Greenfield individual can be found
here.
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1938 |
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Birtle, near Bury |
10th Dec |
flushed from moors |
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1945 |
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Worsley |
20th Oct |
Shot |
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1945 |
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Worsley |
11th Nov |
Flushed from same locality as the above record |
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1946 |
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Worsley |
15th Apr |
Seen |
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1979 |
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Greenfield |
24th Sep |
A juvenile/1st winter, shot on farmland below the moors, corpse now at
the Natural History Museum |
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