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| Image Description: |
A Turnstone feeds on the sandy shore |
| Image notes: |
This bird is probably upset by the frosty day. |
| Species in Image: |
Turnstone |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc00801 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Turnstone |
| Latin Name |
Arenaria interpres |
| Shetland Name |
Steenpikker |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Scolopacidae |
| Common Family Name |
Sandpipers, Snipes, Godwits, Curlews & Phalaropes |
| Description |
Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Wintering birds in Shetland probably breed in Greenland and north-east Canada.
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