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Observation of the Whimbrel (Numeniius phaeopus) at Lachia in environment of Místek (Prášek 1908: 22) At footnote number 4 is written: "Also observed of Whimbrel, people rainy Curlew, lenght of body as far as 50 cm".
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The Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) is a worldwide endangered bird species on the brink of extintion. For the last time it nested in Siberia, Russia. It flew trought Europe regulary in the 19th century. Because its records are unrepeatable, each date has a high scientific value. This article describes the historical record probably of...
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... pharmacist and natural sciencist from Místek, Adolf Schwab (1807-1891), did not know anything about the occurrence of the Slender-billed Curlew and the Whimbrel in the environ- ments of Místek (he gave some donations to Místek´schoolMístek´school in 1867, and he was literally active in 1879 for the last time, Schwab 1869;Hudeček & Hanák 2000;von Wurzbach 1876;Anonymus 1891). Kadlčák (1905) wrote in his text "Fauna of the Beskydy territory in Lachia", and Linhart (1915) in text "Fauna of the Místek district" that the "Curlew" had been seen there. Also Jan Prášek (1874-?), a secondary school teacher in Místek and a natural scientist, wrote in his work "Ornithological situation in Lachia" that a "rainy Curlew(= the Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus), the body lenght 50 cm was observed in Lachia" (Prášek 1908;Hudec et al. 1966, Fig. 3). From this can be logically deduced that the origin und time of record can probably be derived. The Czech name "koliha dešťová" = rainy Curlew is derived from the German name Regen Brachvogel and the name "Curlew" (German "Brachvogel", Czech "koliha") itself concerns the Whimbrel (Brehm 1830; Dalla-Torre & Knauer 1887; for a detailed interpretation see Bertau 2014). Literature describes mistaking the Whimbrel and Slender-billed Curlew (Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen 1896). Lachia is an ethnographic area (Kolektiv 1993: 434;Krulikovský 2007) on the border between Moravia and Silesia, on both river banks of the Ostra- vice River so it can be concluded that the record happened somewhere in the environment of Místek. Probably it is a specimen from the collection of J. Bednař (Bednarz) and based on the period of his working in the local school, it might have been between the years 1884-1897. Julius Bednař (1856-1897) came from Červená Voda, graduated from a teachers institute in Brno, since 1884 he was the director of a German Utraquist town single-sex school for boys in Místek. Since 1894 he was a district inspector for townfolk schools. He died prematurely of a heart disease. Since 1886 he was a member of the Society for Natural Science in Brno (as very valuable member, Heinke 1890) where he was highly appreciated for his numerous gifts of birds and mammals. Thanks to Josef Talský he also became a member of the Ornithological Society in Vienna (Anonymus 1886). He wrote the obituary for A. Schwab (Bednař ...
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