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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/36396| Title: | An unusually large influx of Ruff |
| Authors: | Galea, Raymond |
| Keywords: | Birds -- Migration -- Malta Ruff (Bird) -- Malta Scolopacidae Calidris Charadriiformes |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Publisher: | Birdlife Malta |
| Citation: | Galea, R. (2010). An unusually large influx of Ruff. Il-Merill, 32, 33. |
| Abstract: | The Ruff Philomachus pugnax is a common spring migrant to the Maltese Islands from late February and early March to mid-June with normally up to 20 - 50 birds in a day, sometimes up to 130, but c.300 were at Hal Far and Luqa airfields in spring 1973 (Sultana & Gauci 1982), and 200+ were recorded at Luqa on 2nd April 1979 (Cachia Zammit 1983). It is less common in autumn from mid-July to mid-October with daily maximum recorded being of 30 birds. A large flock of c.300 birds occurred at Salina in mid-July 1973. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/36396 |
| Appears in Collections: | Il-Merill : issue 32 : 2010 Il-Merill : issue 32 : 2010 |
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