Waders
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of more than 500 wader specimens and numerous wader eggs. These date from 1872 to 1995.
This collection contains approximately 180 mounted specimens, 315 skins, and 16 skulls or skeletal preparations. The specimens represent 87 species. There are large numbers of specimens from Scotland, but also examples from England, Ireland, Wales, Switzerland, Spain, Malawi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, India, Malaysia, Borneo, New Zealand, Australia, Chile and the USA. There are good series of several species, especially the commoner Scottish species.
About waders
The birds generally known as waders belong to a diverse group, the Charadriiformes. Most tend to live near water and feed by probing their long beaks into the mud in search of invertebrates and other small animals. - Broader term
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