Awesome find guys, well done!
Paul's images are up here: http://birdo.wildiaries.com/species/19581
Just look at the gait of this bird and the size dimensions. These are great
photos. From the last reported candidate for a SIPO, Jeff Davies provided some
information about identification. I've copied it here for general interest:
SIPO cannot be reliably identified on rump pattern alone.SIPO cannot be
reliably identified based on wing bar extent.
The only way to reliably identify SIPO is on a range of
characteristics, combined with structure and build. The species is:
Significantly smaller than Pied Oystercatcher.Is relatively
dumpy-looking, on account of it having relatively short legs and long bill.
For reference, here are two profile shots from Wikimedia Commons:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:South_Island_pied_oystercatcher.JPG
(note short legs and long bill)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pied_Oystercatcher.jpg
(note long legs and short bill)
Incidentally, over 40 people received news of this bird yesterday via SMS.
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Regards,
Simon.
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> Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 07:27:00 +1000
> From:
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] South Island Pied Oystercatcher SEQ.
>
> Hi All, as Mike reported yesterday, Brian Russell and myself relocated a bird
> that Brian suspected was a SIPO two weeks ago. He'd sent me some photos that
> looked promising re; legs but other details were needed. The next suitable
> tides were this weekend gone so we went to the area where we frequently
> photograph waders and found a party of about 80 Pied Oystercatchers of mixed
> local and NSW birds. Within about two minutes we had located the SIPO and
> began taking hundreds of photos as the tide began to push the group ever
> closer to us and we managed to capture most if not all the salient features
> needed for a submission to BARC. As far as I know this is the 3rd record for
> the greater Brisbane region.
>
> The tides will still be suitable for the next few days and the bird should
> stay for some while barring accident. The location is Orana Esplanade on Pt.
> Halloran at Victoria Point and the particular raised shingle beach is roughly
> adjacent to 21-23 Orana Esplanade. A word of caution, these birds are used to
> human traffic going to and fro but object to anyone or thing joining them on
> their patch once they have arrived. One merely has to sit on the wall and
> wait for the tide to push the birds up to you. A scope will not be necessary,
> we photographed the SIPO down to about 6-7 metres! At the moment the tides
> are reaching the upper levels of comfort for the birds at this site and after
> a while they will fly off to other roosts, so my advice is to get there about
> a hour before high tide and just sit and wait. To anyone not familiar with
> the species I can send them some photos and info to help them locate this
> visitor from NZ. Cheers - Paul W.
>
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