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• Knots and turnstones arrive at Alert in late May through early June, when the weather is cold and unpredictable and food resources scarce.
• The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
• Species such as red knot ( '' Calidris canutus '') and ruddy turnstone ( '' Arenaria interpres '') are inferred to have had much larger populations and more extensive breeding areas during glacial stages, although others, such as dunlin ( '' C. alpina ''), exhibit evidence of range fragmentation during glacial stages leading to the evolution of distinct geographically restricted infraspecific taxa. Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
• In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds.
• Just above the water's edge, a ruddy turnstone picked at sea lion afterbirth. MINUTES TO BURN
• Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica. Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
• And besides the land birds, Gould felt he had looked at some other new species, including a gull, a heron, and a turnstone. The Song of The Dodo
• Active foragers, turnstones are best known for their habit of turning over objects and eating the food underneath.
• Even now I think with pity of one particular turnstone. The Foot-path Way
• Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica. Lord Howe Island Group, Australia