Identifier: birdsofyorkshire02nels (find matches)
Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s). Accidental visitant from south and east Europe and north Africa,of extremely rare occurrence. This duck nests in the southe n and eastern portionsof Continental Europe and north Africa, migrating in winterto India and China. Its claim to rank as a Yorkshire bird rests on the occurrenceof one example only, a male in good plumage, which was killedoff a pond on Coatham Marshes on 20th January 1900. I saw the specimen soon after it was procured and purchasedit from the shooter (Zool. 1900, p. 483 ; and Nat. 1900, pp. 304, 322). Mr. T. Stephenson states (MS. 1880), that J. Kitching(of Whitby) says this has been shot at Redcar ; but I amunable to trace any record previous to that mentioned above. COMMON POCHARD. Fuligula ferina (Z). Resident; extremely local; breeds at several places. Also wintervisitant, not very abundant. The earhest reference to this bird in Yorkshire appearsto be in connection with the working of Doncaster Decoyin 1707-27, where mention is made of a contrivance used
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Pochards nest, Hornsea Mere. y?. For/uiw. See page 463. COMMON POCHARD. 463 for capturing Pochards by means of a net at dusk. (Hatfields Historical Notices of Doncaster, 1866.)Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote :— Fuligula fprina.—The Pochard—Common near Doncaster ; notinfrequent about York ; rare near Sheffield and Hebden Bridge ;met with in a large pond at Hemmingfield, near Barnsley, generallyin company with the Scaup, Golden-eye, and Tufted Ducks ; Dr.Farrar remarks that a friend of his who lived close by, and waited onthem very attentively with his gun, assured him that the only attrac-tion to that spot appeared to be a species of duckweed which grew thereabundantly, and which they devoured with avidity ; on the moorsnear Huddersfield it is occasionally obtained, also in the vicinity ofLeeds ; rare about Hebden Bridge ; A. Strickland says though itis to a considerable degree a maritime bird, it is not often killed nearBridlington, except in severe weather, but it is often found in o

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