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  • Red-backed Sandpiper or Dunlin [underlined] Pelidna alpina sakholina (Viullot) [underlined] Several very large flocks seen about the foreshore of between Iona Is [Island] + Sea Is. [Island] April 15./35 [1935].- Terra Nova. Lulu Is [Island] B.C. [British Columbia] Nov. [November] 23rd/35 [1935]. Still very common + many flocks seen this afternoon along foreshore + flying high in the air at high water. Estimated about 5000 seen. Several were (5) collected on Nov. [November] 16th, two sent the Prov. [Provincial] Museum via Ian McT. [McTaggart] Cowan + three kept for my own collection. Feby. [February] 9. 1930. About 350 seen on foreshore of Sea Island, B.C. [British Columbia] April 18. 1932. Boundary Bay B.C. [words crossed out] Canoe Pass near Ladner B.C. [British Columbia] about 1000 Dunlin seen along foreshore April 19. 1932. Lulu Is [Island] B.C. [British Columbia] Numerous flocks along foreshore Terra Nova Dec [December] 3. 1938 Large flocks flying about marsh - high tide - At times several thousand would be about and on the marshy ground, feeding. Found one wounded bird + saw + heard four or five men shooting into the flocks near waters edge. Reported these to Warden Clark. Dec. [December] 7. 1938. Very numerous on Lulu Isd. [Island] foreshore. Secured many disturbed + kept flying about over marsh + fields in very erratic manner.
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