Word: greenshank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carries his recording equipment from the Scottish moors to the Salisbury Plain, "creeping like a criminal," he says, to capture the call of the grass warbler. Badgered by such background noises as airplanes, trains, barking dogs and high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed...
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