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WHILE spending the late winter months at Paignton, in Devon, I frequently watched, through a telescope, shore birds of various kinds stalking game on the low tide sands. These abound with sand-eels, which lie, perfectly concealed, about an inch below the surface, and are caught in the following way by the gulls.
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PIDGEON, D. Intelligence in Animals. Nature 27, 366 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027366c0
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