Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos (Vieillot, 1819)

Barrow Gurney Resrvoirs, North Somerset © Nigel Milbourne 2008


  1. One, not aged, 30th Aug. to 8th Sep. 1964 (R.M. Curber et al.).
  2. One, not aged, 30th Sep. 1975 (K.E. Vinicombe).
  3. One, not aged, 6th-10th Oct. 1984 (J.S. Rowe), with two 9th-10th Oct. (J.S. Rowe).
  4. One, juvenile, 10th Oct. 1992 (R.M. Andrews).
  5. One, juvenile, 19th-21st Sep. 2003 (M.I. Pearce, R. Palmer et al.).
  6. One, juvenile, 16th-18th Sep. 2004 (N.R. Milbourne, R.M. Curber et al.).
  7. One, not aged, 1st-11th Oct. 2006 (Various observers).
  8. One, juvenile, 6th-16th Oct. 2016 (A.H. Davis, R. Mielcarek et al.).
  9. One, juvenile, 19th Sep. 2018 (K.E. Vinicombe et al.).

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Bibliography (sources of information):

  1. Davis, A.H. Birds at Blagdon Lake 1963-1983. Bristol Ornith. 18: 102-116. Bristol Ornithological Club.
  2. Davis, A.H. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 1992. Avon Ornithological Group.
  3. Davis, H.H. (ed.). Bristol Bird Report, 1964. Bristol Naturalists’ Society.
  4. Davis, H.H. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1964. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  5. McGeoch, J.A. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1975. Somerset Ornithological Society.
  6. Rose, Dr H.E. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 2003. Avon Ornithological Group.
  7. Rose, Dr H.E. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 2004. Avon Ornithological Group.
  8. Rose, Dr H.E. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 2006. Avon Ornithological Group.
  9. Taylor, S.M. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 1984. Avon Ornithological Group.