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>Subject: [WADERS-L:307] Breeding success in 1997 in Siberian Arctic
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>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 08:42:12 +0200
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>A catch of 48 Sanderling yesterday (28 Oct '97) on the southern Victorian
>coast contained 8 juvenlie birds (17%). This is the highest percentage of
>juveniles in any of the 11 catches of Sanderling (1099 birds total with
>average % of juveniles only 3.4%) made by the Victorian Wader Study Group
>over the last six years. It is further evidence that 1997 may have been a
>good breeding season for at least some of the wader species breeding in the
>Siberian Arctic or for some regions of that area. The sighting of an orange
>flagged SAnderling on the New Siberian Is. in 1994 indicates that at least
>some of the birds spending the non-breeding season in SE Australia emanate
>from the central part of the Siberian Arctic north coast.
>In amixed catch of 473 waders on 18 Oct. '97 there were small numbers of
>juvenile Red Knot, Curlew Sandpiper, Great Knot, Bartailed Godwit and
>Rednecked Stint (but not Grey Plover or Turnstone). However this date is
>considered too early in the season to be representative.
>Sanderling will be sampled again in January and March and the other
>species, as opportunity permits, over the next four months. Results will
>continue to be circulated on Wader-l
>Clive Minton -on behalf of the Victorian Wader Study Group
Cheers, Hugo.
Hugo Phillipps,
Birds Australia Conservation & Liaison,
Australian Bird Research Centre,
415 Riversdale Road,
Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia.
Tel: (03) 9882 2622. Fax: (03) 9882 2677.
o/s: +61 3 9882 2622. Fax: +61 3 9882 2677.
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Web Homepage: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~birdsaus
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