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The Birds of Marden Quarry
 The birds of Marden Quarry have been intensively
studied and observed for many years by a small number of dedicated birders.
For a relatively small area it has amassed a surprisingly large number of
birds either seen in the quarry or flying over. Thirty species breed
in the quarry and a further forty nine species are seen regularly.
Thirty more are seen occasionally during the year. It would surprise
most people to find that over a hundred different bird species could be
seen in the quarry every year. It is a credit to the outstanding effort
of the regular observers that a further sixty species have been recorded
with varying degrees of rarity. This puts the total quarry bird list
at one hundred and sixty nine. For a small site in the middle of a suburban
area this is an amazing total.  |