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Western Treatment Plant Wader ID Help

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Subject: Western Treatment Plant Wader ID Help
From: Graham Buchan <>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:07:51 +1100
Ruff. Nice one.

Cheers, Graham Buchan

On 16/11/2010, at 8:38 PM,  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm an American birder who has reached the end of his fifth Aussie birding
> trip.  On Sunday this week, I was out at the WTP in Werribee, Victoria, and
> I saw a wader that I could use some help with.
>
> It was originally with three Common Greenshanks, and was slightly smaller
> than them, and obviously different.  It had yellow legs, quite long.   It
> flew and it was seen a little while later on a different pond.  I was  with a
> local birder, and I'm sorry, but I can't tell you which ponds we saw it  on,
> but he would probably know, if it matters.
>
> We pondered the possibilities and came up with Great Knot, but that was
> before we saw the yellow legs so clearly, on the second pond.  The legs  also
> seemed too long for Great Knot, and the bill length seemed too short.
>
> I took some pictures, at too great a distance, and with a hand held point
> and shoot super zoom camera, so they aren't good at all, but maybe they are
> good  enough to help with an ID.  The pictures can be seen here:
>
> _http://www.barry15.com/2010_Australia_Trip/Wader/_
> (http://www.barry15.com/2010_Australia_Trip/Wader/)
>
> The only bird in my field guide that seems to match all the features is
> Ruff, but I realize that that would be a rarity, so I am skeptical.  What  am
> I missing?  Help please?
>
> Barry Brugman
> USA
>
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