On a wing and a prayer

A bird which seeks eternal summer captivated writer Andrew Darby the first time he came across it in its netherworld of mudflat and saltmarsh. Darby had other, bigger and more dramatic long-billed and long-legged quarry in mind, on a mission to write about the trapping and satellite-tracking of shorebirds in the battle to save them from extinction. His eyes settled, however, on the diminutive, unremarkable grey plover.

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