Dutch Birding volume 34 (2012) no 5
Slender-billed Curlew collected at Zierikzee in December 1888
A lost specimen without proper documentation of Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris was recently rediscovered at the Missiemuseum at Steijl, Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands. Details of its provenance were found in old notebooks and publications; it concerns a bird collected at Zierikzee, Schouwen-Duiveland, Zeeland, the Netherlands, on 5 December 1888. This report was previously rejected because the whereabouts of the specimen and the date (month and year) were not known with certainty but it has now been accepted by the Dutch rarities committee (CDNA). This concerns the ninth record for the Netherlands, chronologically the second; all records concern birds which were collected. The last was at Wieringen, Noord-Holland, on 23 January 1947.
Justin J F J Jansen, Ravelijn 6, 5361 EJ Grave, Nederland
(justin.jansen
gmail.com)
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