Have you eliminated Latham's Snipe?
Regards
Frank Antram
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From: Duncan McCaskill
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:49:54 +1000
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Subject: Help with ID please
> I have some birds in my GBS site that I am having trouble identifying. I'm
> pretty sure they are some kind of Sandpiper - they are about the right size,
> brownish patterning uppermost, hint of white marking on the wings, long
> bill, small pointed wings, rapid wing beats. I haven't managed to get a good
> look at them, I've only seen them as they fly away when flushed from cover.
> The books have the most likely Sandpiper in this part of the world as the
> Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, but the call I've heard doesn't match the call
> described in the books - but written descriptions of calls are always hard
> to interpret. Simpson & Day describe the Sharp-tailed call as 'wit wit
> wit-it-it', which doesn't sound like the calls I heard. I'd describe the
> calls I've heard as a high-pitched "breeep" or "cheeep" (the stereotypical
> call of a "bird"). The pitch is somewhere between a Galah & a Red-Rumped
> Parrot (sorry, not very helpful, they were just the two calls I could here
> at the same time).
> My "garden" site is on Ginninderra Creek, just downstream from Giralang
> Pond. The birds were flushed from the long grass on the creek banks and the
> reed beds, which seemed surprising for a kind of bird I usually associate
> with coastal mudflats.
>
> I'm not very familiar with Sandpipers or their calls - I haven't seen the
> ones at Jerrabomberra Wetlands.
>
> I first heard them on Saturday without having any idea what they they were.
> I saw them this morning and again in the afternoon (Sunday). There are about
> 5 of them.
>
> Any ideas? Is there anything else that looks a bit like a Sandpiper that
> they could be?
>
> Duncan.
>
>
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