WOTSIT

[martin butterfield <>]

One lives and learns: one hopes that the bird will also live despite having a nice new international runway http://www.sthelenaairport.com/ to share its territory at some stage.  

For the sake of the Semantics Police I wondered about the structure of the latin name (unuusal to have two words for the species element).  On checking Avibase the space is missing as in "sanctaehelenae".

Martin

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Paul has it.  Steve H also got there a little earlier via the napoleons and the help of his mother.

 

 

From: Paul Fennell [
Sent: Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:03 AM
To: 'Damien Farine'; ;
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] WOTSIT

 

Hi everyone

 

Geoff’s pastry clue evoked fond memories of childhood.  Loved Napoleons!

 

Wirebird similar to the Kittlitz's Plover.

The Wirebird Charadrius sanctae helenae is the last surviving endemic land bird on St Helena. The wirebird is closely related to the Kittlitz's Sand Plover C. pecarius of Africa although it is larger and has a different marking. The bill of the wirebird is also longer.

 

http://home.swipnet.se/~w-17282/endemic/wirebird.html

 

Cheers

 

Paul

 

Paul Fennell

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From: Damien Farine [
Sent: Saturday, 16 May 2009 10:11 AM
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Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] WOTSIT

 

I would venture a guess at being a Kittlitz's Plover.. coming out of breeding plumage?  Habitat is right, just missing the dark patch in the wing in the photograph.

 

Damien

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Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 19:38:07 +1000
Subject: WOTSIT

Well, OK Steve.  Think of those cakes of one’s childhood (1950ish), not Lamos, the ones with a custardy filling sandwiched between flaky pastry with a smear of jam on each side.  Haven’t seen them recently but they were popular in their day.  Also, the bird has an alternative vernacular name consisting of one word.

 

From: Steve Holliday [
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 6:08 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] WOTSIT

 

Hmm, how about a clue? Country? Continent?

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Friday, 15 May 2009 5:59 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] WOTSIT

 

A friend snapped this to test me (I failed).  It is very unlikely you would see this bird in Canberra.  In fact a Grey-headed Lapwing is much more likely.  Any bids?

 

 

 

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