The Bar-tailed Godwit was locally known as a Spowe in seventeenth century Norfolk

What is it about?

The article explains that in early years the Bar-tailed Godwit was locally called a Spowe, but later ornithologists had mistakenly thought a Spowe was a Whimbrel

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Why is it important?

Later ornithologists have nistakenly accepted that a Spowe, a winter visitor in Norfolk referred to a Whimbrel , a migratory species, ather than to the winter visiting Bar-tailed Godwit. These earlier reports need to be corrected.