El Annie
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A 35-year-old oystercatcher flew into the record books yesterday, having covered at least 150,000 airmiles between the East Coast of England and Norway. The noisy black-and-white bird, caught at Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, during a ringing exercise by the British Trust for Ornithology, is the oldest wader recorded in Britain. Chris Mead, from the trust, said yesterday: “We had no idea an oystercatcher could reach the ripe old age of 35.”
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A 35-year-old oystercatcher flew into the record books yesterday, having covered at least 150,000 airmiles between the East Coast of England and Norway. The noisy black-and-white bird, caught at Wainfleet, Lincolnshire, during a ringing exercise by the British Trust for Ornithology, is the oldest wader recorded in Britain. Chris Mead, from the trust, said yesterday: “We had no idea an oystercatcher could reach the ripe old age of 35.”
El Annie :t:
Extract from conserv@tion
http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm
