OSIECK ER & ROSELAAR CS (1972) A find of Marsh-Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis in the Netherlands. LIMOSA 45 (3): 135-138.

During the hot summer of 1971 the circumstances in the shallow wilters of the Dutch new polder Zuidelijk Flevoland were very appropriate for the development of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, type C. The toxin of this bacterium causes foodpoisoning, botulismus, in waterfowl. The authors visited the hardly accessible area several times in september and tried to count the number of victims. Some thousands of birds were found dead or dying on some km2 , most of them Teal Anas crecca, but also numbers of Snipe Gallinago gallinago, Shelduck Tadorna tadorna, Gadwall Anas strepera, a hunderd of Avocets Recurvirostra avosetta, etc. Among these birds a Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis was found. It has been taken in the collection of the Zoological Museum in Amsterdam, Uf. ZMA 22,952. According to plumage and gonads it was a first calendar year bird, moulting into winterplumage. The last few years this species is seen almost once a year in the Netherlands, the first one being observed in 1958. The bird in the ZMA-collection, however, is the first Marsh-Sandpiper collected in this country.

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