Ardea
Official journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union

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Bierman W.H. (1961) De late voorjaarstrek. ARDEA 49 (1-2): 78-82
A list is given of migrants observed during a trip to the Near East in May and June, 1960. Hundreds of Wilson's Petrels were seen flying North in the Gulf of Cadiz on June 7th, and several of the same species in the Bay of Biscay on June 9th., Great Shearwaters apparently not yet having arrived in these parts. One Sooty Shearwater was seen near Gibraltar on May 12th. a Great Skua crossed the Mediterranean on June 4th at lat. 11o E., an Arctic Skua was observed flying West along the Turkish coast on May 26th. Two Sabine's Gulls in summer plumage passed Cape St. Vincent on May 11th. and six Arctic Terns were seen near Tripoli harbour on May 17th, flying East. Storks were still migrating through the Bekaa Valley in the Lebanon on May 23rd.


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