William Hughes Workman, The Zoologist (1902)
“ I think there is nothing that gives more pleasure than to look on a species that one has often read about, but has never seen alive in the wild state. I had this pleasure a few times this year, but what must it be to discover a species new to science! The Great Black-backed Gulls also come to Canna, and Mr. Thorn, the owner of the island, tells me they sometimes attack the lambs, pecking out their eyes, and gouging into the brain. ”
William Hughes Workman, The Zoologist (1902)
“ All the time the old birds were running about whistling, and occasionally one of them would fall over on its breast, spread out the tail, extend the wings, and flap about like a wounded bird; then stretch its wings straight up, as if in the last agonies of death. ”
William Hughes Workman, The Zoologist (1902)
“ In a few seconds I had them in focus, and saw they were Golden Plover (Charadrius pluvialis) in breeding plumage, which interested me greatly, as it was the first of this species I had seen alive. They went about in pairs, sometimes coming quite close; I think they had young among the grass and heather. We next went to the edge of the cliffs to see the thousands of Puffins that are continually flying backward and forward. It is wonderful looking down from this great height at the never-ceasing stream of bird-life, all seeming to be in a great hurry about something. ”
