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An unusual year for sandpipers

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Subject: An unusual year for sandpipers
From: "Wallaces" <>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:51:38 +1100

More reports of Pectoral and Curlew Sandpiper from Kellys Swamp today (see http://www.eremaea.com/BirdlineRecentSightings.aspx?Birdline=11) prompted me to look at when these two species and the Wood  Sandpiper have been recorded in the same year.  Below is a summary of the records from the COG database. It shows that the three species have never been recorded in the same year in the ACT and only in one year (1995) in the rest of the COG area of interest. The records for 2013 are incomplete.

 

Steve

 

Number of records

Species

State/Year ending 30 June

Curlew Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper

ACT

6

25

11

1975

1

1993

1

1994

9

1995

1

2003

25

2005

3

2010

2

NSW

138

35

3

1981

1

1982

3

1983

13

1984

7

1985

8

1986

9

1987

4

1988

11

1989

5

5

1990

2

1991

7

1

1992

8

3

1993

6

3

1994

13

4

1995

13

3

1

1996

9

5

1997

2

2

1998

8

3

1999

2

2000

2

2006

3

2

2007

1

1

2009

1

2013

4

1

Grand Total

144

60

14

 

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