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A recent visit to another sanctuary adds impetus to my plea that the R.S.P.B. will be strongly supported in its endeavour to secure Romney Marsh as a sanctuary. Great Britain, the father and mother of bird preservation, has no secure winter sanctuary of any size for waders and wild fowl ; no place where there is no shooting ; and we more or less pledged ourselves to provide one at an international Con- ference held in 1927. Romney is peculiarly suitable. Much rarer geese than any mentioned in the R.S.P.B. pamphlet frequent there as well as ruffs and garganey- teal and a host of other duck and waders. It was a great delight the other day to find that garganey (the most furtive nester of all the duck) were nesting freely in East Anglia, and Redsha,nks—as delightful a bird to hear as to see—were as common as plovers. But we still badly need some considerable area of marshy land, which shall provide sanctuary to birds of passage on migration as well as to nesters ; and Romney is the ideal
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