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The Dotterel

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson     

The dotterel is a northern bird, breeding on the highest and barest tops of the Cairngorms, the Grampians and also sparingly in the North of England. It rarely occurs farther south on migration; a few autumns ago a small party spent a few days on London Airport, and there is still one farm in Cambridgeshire where migrants regularly halt in spring. But it is a bird of mountains and tundra, and for most birdwatchers a rare and exciting species. The dotterel's breeding behaviour is of particular interest: slightly larger and more brightly coloured than the cock, the hen does the wooing leaving her smaller mate to brood her eggs while she joins other "grass widows"

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson has studied these birds for many years, and knows them and their ways probably better than any ornithologist alive. His book is both a description of dotterels in their remote habitat and a definitive account of all aspects of their life history. The book is fully illustrated with 15 black and white photographs, a colour frontispiece, and many maps, figures and tables. (inside front cover)

Hardback;1973 1st edition. A classic and well respected monograph.  Large painting of Dotterel 60k here Other Scottish Bird books click Here *See also The Snow Bunting

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