Lapwing and Nest

Lapwing and Nest

Richard and Cherry Kearton

1902

White 16

The 1902 edition of Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne

Talking of a nearby area of uncultivated land, White says, "This lonely domain is a very agreeable haunt for many sorts of wild fowls, which not only frequent it in the winter, but breed there in the summer; such as lapwings, snipes, wild-ducks...." (18).

  • Richard Jefferies and other British Nature Writers — Gilbert White, William Cobbett, and W.H. Hudson
  • Victorian Ornithologists

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