Taken on 30/11/2012
Turnstones are very scarce migrants seen mostly around the coast in spring and autumn. Most occur between April and May and from August to September, but they are occasionally also seen in November. One of Malta's first ornithologists was Charles Wright, a British serviceman who lived in Sliema, and who, like all ornithologists of his time, was also a hunter who had a collection of stuffed birds. In his diary of 1855 one reads: “In the last week of July, while enjoying the moonlight at my door, when everyone had retired to rest, and a delightful stillness hung around, a well known and peculiar note struck my ear. I could not, however, for some time, bring to mind the species of bird by which it was produced. At length I remembered it was that of a Turnstone, and I longed in my heart, to be able to obtain a specimen for my collection, as it is at present without one. I did possess one but it was destroyed by the feline domestic.
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