Hi Birding-Aus subscribers
In the 1960's Common Sandpipers on the Swan River Estuary were mostly seen
on the stone retaining walls of Herrisson Island and adjacent areas, but
they were also found on the Mud occasionally and on the Sandy/mud beach
along the Freeway at Como.
Since then I have seen them on the rocky/mud edges of Sewerage ponds at
Broome, Derby, Alice Springs, and at the muddy/grass areas of Edithvale in
Melbourne.
I made the 6th CS sighting for NZ while there but it was on a hard muddy
bank of the Manawatu R. where it stayed for some weeks.
In Papua New Guinea they work the grassy edges to our three lakes, and a
human presence sends them onto the waterlily leaves on the lake - the
location I have watched them settle down for the night, some time after
sunset.
So a fairy adaptable bird is the CS.
Happy birding
Mike
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Dr Mike Tarburton
Biology
Pacific Adventist University
PMB Boroko
Papua New Guinea
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