Antique Taxidermy - BRITISH PLOVERS & WADERS

PERFECT WADER HABITAT,COASTAL LAGOONS,ON THIS SITE AT CLEY-NEXT-THE-SEA I HAVE SEEN SUCH RARITIES AS DOTTEREL,GREAT SNIPE,AVOCETS,CURLEW SANDPIPER,PECTORAL SANDPIPER,TEMMINICKS STINT,WOOD SANDPIPER,GREEN SANDPIPER,GREENSHANK,BLACK-TAILED GODWIT,AS WELL AS STINTS,RUFF,REDSHANK GREY/GOLDEN PLOVERS/SNIPE,KNOT,RINGED PLOVER,CURLEW,WHIMBREL,COMMON AND SPOTTED REDSHANK,LAPWINGS,TURNSTONE

AVOCET AND CURLEW IN BIG CASE OF NORFOLK BIRDS

GODWIT,CURLEW & REDSHANK

AVOCET(RECURVIROSTRA AVOSETTA)

AN AMERICAN ACOCET FOR COMPARISON(AVOCETTA ROSSETTA)

EUROPEAN AVOCEST ON NEST SCENE

HUGE CASE OF WADERS AND BIRDS THAT CAN BE SEEN ON MIGRATION IN NORTH NORFOLK,OVER 70 VICTORIAN BIRDS IN SHINGLE BEACH & ROCKY OUTCROP SETTINGS,BIRDS BY TE GUNN,PASHLEY,LOWNE AND CLARKE.MADE UP OF ORIGINAL VICTORIAN CASE & COMPLETED WITH BIRDS FROM DAMAGED SMALLER CASES.

THE STONE CURLEW,THICKNEE OR NORFOLK PLOVER.RAPIDLY INCREASING DUE TO THE RSPBs,AID TO THE FARMING COMMUNITY IN EAST ANGLIA AND WILTSHIRE,MOST NESTS NOW ON AGRICULTURAL LAND AS PREVIOUSLY ON LOWLAND HEATHLAND AND FLINTY FIELDS.

STONE CURLEW,THICKNEES OR NORFOLK PLOVER.

STONE CURLEW ON NEST SCENE FAUX EGGS

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER AND SANDERLING SUPER RARE SPECIMENS

PURPLE SANDPIPER AND GREY PHALAROPES IN LOVELY OLD CASE

KENTISH PLOVER AMD TEMINICKS STINT

CURLEW & AVOCET IN LARGE WADER CASE

WILSONS PHALAROPE( )EXTREMELY RARE MIFGRANT TO BRITAN,THESE TWO BIRDS CAME IN A LARGE CASE DATED 1880,POSSIBLY BY HOOPER OF WESTBURY SUB-MENDIP

FEMALE WILSONS PHALAROPES IN SUMMER PLUMAGE

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE(PHALAROPUS LOBATUS)ONE OF BRITAIND RAREST AND MOST UNUSUALL BIRDS,RESTRICTED TO A FEW WESTERN SCOTTISH ISLANDS,AN IS UNIQUE DUE TO THE MALE TAKING THE ROLE OF MOTHER INCUBATING AND TAKING ROLE OF FEEDING CHICKS UNTIL THEY FLEDGE AND IS DULLER THAN THE FEMALE,POSSIBLY ONLY AROUND 35-40 PAIRS NEST EVERY YEAR.

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE FEMALE

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE AND WILSONS PHALAROPE

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE(PHALAROPUS LOBATUS)IN WINTER PLUMAGE,THIS SPECIMEN IS AN EARLY CASE POSSIBLY AROUND 1844-50 BY T.E.GUNN OF ST GILES ST,NORWICH,1844-1923,ONE OF BRITAINS RAREST AND MOST PRETTY BIRDS,LESS THAN 40 BREEDING PAIRS IN BRITAIN MOST IN THE WESTERN ISLES,THIS CASE WAS ORIGINALLY LABLED BY GUNN TO BE RE-SOLD BY LOCKWOODS OF FAKENHAM

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE

GREENSHANK(TRINGA NEBULARI)A BIRD OF HIGH MOUNTANOUS WETLANDS AND PEAT BOGS,WINTERS ABROAD BUT SEEN REGULAR ON SOUTHERN ESTUARIES DURING MIGRATION

REDSHANK

BAR-TAILED GODWIT

CASE OF RINGED PLOVERS

CASE OF WADERS BY H.K.SKELTON OF STROUD,TURNSTONE,RINGED PLOVER & DUNLIN

TURNSTONE(ARENARIA INTERPRES)COMMON AUTUMN/WINTER VISITOR TO BRITISH COASTLINES AND ESTUARIES,OFTEN IN SMALL FLOCKS,AND CAN BE VERY TAME AS ARE STINTS,OUR VISITORS ARRIVE FROM GREENLAND,CANADA AND NORTHERN EUROPE

COMMON PRATINCOLE

WOOD SANDPIPER

CASE OF SUMMER PLUMAGE DUNLINS

BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER & SANDERLING(CALIDRIS ALBA)IN WINTER PLUMAGES, THE SANDERLING IS AN AUTUMN MIGRANT FROM THEIR HIGH ARTIC CIRCLE BREEDING GROUNDS IN NORTH AMERICA,SIBERIA AND GREENLAND.WHEREAS THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER IS A MUCH RARER BLUE RIBAND PASSAGE MIGRANT ACCIDENTAL

CURLEW(NUMENSIS ARQUATA)LARGEST BREEDING WADER IN BRITAIN,WETLAND AND UPLAND NESTER,THAT HAS SPREAD TO AGRICULTURAL LAND,HAS DECLINED THROUGH DRAINAGE AND INCREASE IN FARMLAND USE ALL OVER EUROPE

CURLEW(NUMENIUS ARQUATA)TYPICAL SUMMER BIRD OF MOUNTANOUS MOORLAND AND DAMP BOGS,ALSO NOW BREEDS IN AGRICULTURAL SETTINGS,MIGRANTS WINTER ON COASTS,BRITISH BREEDERS MIGRATE TO FRANCE AND SPANISH ESTUARIES.

JACK SNIPES(LYMNOCRYPTES MINIMUS)

WILSONS PHALAROPE

PHALAROPES IN WINTER PLUMAGE

WHIMBREL(NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS)INCREASING BREEDING BIRD IN BRITAIN,POSSIBLY DUE TO COLDER AND WETTER SPRINGS,CAUSING MORE TO WINTER,95 PER CENT OF POPULATION ON SHETLAND ISLES.

GODWIT ON NEST SCENE

COMMON SANDPIPER

PAIR OF RUFF

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GOLDEN PLOVER(PLUVALIS APRICARIA)JUVENILE APPROACHING WINTER PLUMAGE,MOUNTED BY OF CARDIFF,THIS ONE IN AUTUMN PLUMAGE,A BREEDING BIRD OF HIGH PEAK MOORLAND AND MOUNTAINS,FROM DERBYSHIRE NORTHWARDS,BUT DECLINING DUE TO DRAINAGE AND INCREASE IN FORESTRY PLANTATIONS.

PLOVERS IN WINTER PLUMAGE BY G.ADRIAN OF LINCOLN(1850-1920)VERY OLD PLAIN CASE BUT A NICE EXAMPLE OF MARKET TWON TAXIDERMY

GREY PLOVER(PLUVALIS SQUATAROLA) IN WINTER PLUMAGE AND SNOWSCENE DOME,

SIDE VIEW OF ABOVE GREY PLOVER,ONE OF ONLY A VERY FEW MODERN MOUNTS IN OUR COLLECTION,

GOLDEN PLOVER IN SUMMER PLUMAGE,A LOVELY BIRD OF HIGH MOORLAND

RINGED PLOVERS ON NEST SCENE

AVOCET

REDSHANK LOVELY BIRD,THIS ONE A JUVENILE

RINGED PLOVER(CHARADRIUS HIATICULA)A SMALL COASTAL PLOVER,COMMON NESTER ON SHINGLE BARS,SAND/SHINGLE BEACHES BUT STILL VUNERABLE TO FOXES AND HOLIDAYMAKING HUMAN DISTURBANCE,COULD FACE SERIOUS REPROCUSSIONS IF WATER LEVEL RISES THROUGH GLOBAL WARMING ON LINCOLNSHIRE,NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK COASTLINES.

RINGED PLOVER

RINGED PLOVERS ON NEST SCENE

KENTISH PLOVER IN WINTER PLUMAGE

AVOCET AND CURLEW IN LARGE CASE OF NORFOLK WADERS

RUFF IN FULL SUMMER PLUMAGE

FEMALE RUFF AND KENTISH PLOVER

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER(CHARADRIUS DUBIUS)EARLY SUMMER VISITOR,RECENTLY COLONISED BRITAIN,FIRST BRED 1938,NESTING ON GRAVEL PITS,WASTEGROUND,MINING AREA,NOW OVER 1000 PAIRS BREEDING,

KENTISH PLOVER(CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS) AND TEMMINCKS STINT(CALIDRIS TEMMINCKII)ANOTHER UNUSUAL PASHLEY OF CLEY,EXTREMELY OLD CASE POSS PRIOR TO 1900

COMMON SNIPE IN GLASS CASE

PAINTED SNIPE

CURLEW SANDPIPERS

PURPLE SANDPIPER(CALIDRIS MARITIMA)OVER 20 THOUSAND PRPLE SANDPIPERS VISIT BRITAIN IN WINTER ALONG NORTHERN ROCKY BRITISH COASTS AND SOUTH-WESTERLEY,CORNISH AND DEVONIAN CLIFFSUP TO FOUR PAIRS OF OVERWINTERING BIRDS HAVE BRED IN SCOTLAND IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

TURNSTONE(ARENARIA INTERPRES)IN BREEDING PLUMAGE,OVER SIXTY THOUSAND OF THESE BIRDS VISIT BRITAIN EVERY YEAR FROM THEIR BREEDING GROUNDS IN THE TUNDRA OF THE ARTIC CIRCLE,ONLY ONE PROVEN BREEDING RECORD IN 1976

TURNSTONE COMMON SOMETIMES VERY TAME COASTAL WADER

DUNLIN IN WINTER PLUMAGE(CALIDRIS ALPINA)COMMON SEASHORE AND ESTUARY WADER,SOMETIMES IN HUGE FLOCKS TOTALLING SEVERAL THOUSAND,IN WINTER,WHEN REDIDENT POPULATION IS SWELLED BY VISITORS FROM THE NORTH,BREEDS IN MOUNTANOUS MOORLAND REGIONS OF BRITAIN,BUT HAS DECREASED THROUGH FORRESTATION OF UPLAND MEADOWS.

GREY PLOVER( PLUVALIS SQUATAROLA)IN WINTER PLUMAGE,THIS PLOVER IS A VERY WELCOME VISITOR TO OUR ESTUARINE SHORELINE AND MARSHES,SUMMER PLUMAGE BIRDS SOMETIMES APPEARS IN NORFOLK AND KENT IN BRIGHT SUMMER PLUMAGE IN AUGUST

WOODCOCK,SUPERBLY MARKED BIRD OF MIXED WOODLAND AND HEATHLAND RIDES

CASED WOODCOCK SUPER SPECIMEN

CLOSE UP OF WOODCOCK SHOWING PRONOUNCED EYE,WHICH ENABLES THE BIRD TO SEE OVER 180 DEGREES EITHER SIDE OF THE UNUSUALLY SHAPED HEAD

GOLDEN PLOVER BY T E GUNN

CURLEW

CASED WHIMBREL ON NEST SCENE/FAUX EGGS

WOODCOCK

WOODCOCK AND SNIPE IN CASE

OYSTERCATCHER(HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS)THE DISTINCTIVE OYSTERCATCHER IS A HIGHLY RECOGNISABLE SPECIES OF OUR SHINGLE,SAND AND ROCKY COASTLINE,OBVIOUS BY ITS STRIKING BLACK AND WHITE PLUMAGE AS WQELL AS ITS VOICIFEROUS CALLINGS AS IT FEEDS AND NESTS ON OUR SHORES,THIS BIRD PICTURED IS A YOUNG IMMATURE IN NON BREEDING/WINTER PLUMAGE.

COMMON SNIPE(GALLINAGO GALLINAGO)NO LONGER A COMMON BIRD OF OUR WETLANDS,DRAINAGE FOR AGRICULTURE OVER LAST TWO CENTURIES,AND OVER 75 PER CENT DOWN ON PREVIOUSLY RECORDED NUMBERS,DRAINING OF FENS AND MARSHLAND TO BLAME FOR THE DECREASE IN NUMBERS OF THIS LONG BILLED FAST FLYING SECRETIVE BIRD.

SPOTTED REDSHANK(TRINGA ERYTHROPUS)AROUND 700 INDIVIDUAL BIRDS PASS THROUGH BRITAIN ON MIGRATION FROM SCANDINAVIA AND RUSSIA IN SEPTEMBER

JUVENILE REDSHANK

OYSTERCATCHER IN WINTER PLUMAGE ON BEACH SCENE

OYSTERCATCHER,NOISY DISTINCTIVE WADER OF SHORE AND ESTUARY

KNOT(CALIDRIS CANUTUS)A LONG DISTANT MIGRANT,WITH AROUND 300 THOUSAND ARRIVING FROM ARTIC CANADA AND ICELAND,NUMBERS HAVE FALLEN SLOWLY OVER LAST FEW YEARS.

CASED KNOT AND WATER RAIL

GREY PHALAROPE(PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS)AROUND 200 MIGRATORY BIRDS ARE SEEN IN BRITAIN PER ANNUM,BREEDS IN ICELAND,SPITSBERGEN,NORTH AMERICA,GREENLAND.

RED-NECKED PHALAROPE(PHALAROPUS LABATUS)WINTER PLUMAGE FEMALE WITH 37-40 BREEDING PAIRS THIS IS ONE OF BRITAINS RAREST BIRDS,DRAINAGE OF BOGGY PEATLAND POOLS AND INTERFERENCE FROM GRAZING ANIMALS AND HUMAN INTRUSION,NESTS ONLY ON WESTERN SCOTTISH ISLES BUT SEEN ON MIGRATION IN NORTH NORFOLK AND EAST COAST.

CURLEW SANDPIPER(CALIDRIS FERRUGINEA)A BLUE RIBAN SPECIES FOR BIRDWATCHERS,SEEN MOSTLY ON COASTS BORDERING THE NORTH SEA,ANOTHER LONG DISTANCE MIGRANT FROM ARTIC SIBERIA AND WINTER IN AFRICA,INDIAN OCEAN AND EVEN NEW ZEALAND

BAR-TAILED GODWIT(LIMOSA LAPPONICA)WINTER PLUMAGE.WINTER MIGRANT,FROM SCANDINAVIA,A FEW NON BREEDERS SUMMER IN BRITAIN

COMMON SANDPIPER OR SUMMER SNIPE

COMMON SANDPIPER

COMMON SANDPIPER(ACTITIS HYPOLEOCUS)SUMMER MIGRANT BREEDING BIRD,WINTERS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA,FORMERLY COMMON VISITOR NUMBERS HAVE DECLINED OVER LAST 30 YEARS,A BIRD OF UPLAND FAST FLOWING STREAMS.

COMMON SNIPE(GALLINAGO GALLINAGO)FORMERLY ABUNDANT WADER OF FRESHWATER MARGINS AND MARSHES,NOW DECLINING AS AREAS ARE DRIED OUT EITHER BY MAN OR WARMING OF OUR WEATHER

AS WITH THE ABOVE COMMON SNIPE,THE WOODCOCK IS A FORMER GAMEBIRD IN DECLINE