Yeah, SPIO sounds like some of Howards lot.
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:08 AM
To: peter crow
Cc: Murray Lord;
Subject: SIPO vs Pied Oystercatcher
David
I should have written SIPO is Heamatopus ostralegus finschi.
Peter
On Thursday, March 15, 2007, at 08:29 AM, peter crow wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> According to Barrie Heather's Field Guide to NZ birds the NZ
> sub-species of the Pied Oystercatche,r Heamatopus ostralegus is h
> finschi, which we call the South Island Pied Oystercatcher. So almost
> every bird you see should be an SPIO.
>
> Peter
> On Wednesday, March 14, 2007, at 08:21 PM, David Stowe wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if someone could post some points for us amateurs to
>> help ID a South Island Pied Oystercatcher compared to a "normal" Pied
>> Oystercatcher?? I take it from Murray's posting that they have more
>> white under the wings??
>> I'm going to New Zealand later in the year so i will hopefully have
>> first hand experience then.
>>
>> I went down to Kurnell today but only Oystercatchers i saw were
>> Sooty's at Boat Harbour. (Sydney)
>> There was a Kelp Gull there too which was cool. I don't think this is
>> a rare sighting here though.
>> I managed to see an Albatross a long way out too but really no idea
>> of species. Seemed to have dark wings both top and bottom but i must
>> be wrong as i can't find anything like it in the field guide. Oh well
>> - another one that got away!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David Stowe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Steve says: "I spent a long time looking at it, both with my scope
>> and binoculars. When it flew, I clearly saw that it had an almost
>> completely white underwing; the white seemed to extend almost to the
>> edge of the wing, where it turned greyish - there simply wasn't a
>> black frame around the white part." He didn't get a view of the back
>> unfortunately.
>>
>> I have raised the possibility of juvenile Pied Oystercatcher with
>> Steve - see the plate in HANZAB which shows more white under the
>> wing. He hasn't had a chance to have a look at that plate yet, but
>> at the moment his view has not changed, that the bird was a SIPO."
>> Let me know if anyone manages to locate the bird.
>>
>>
>> Murray
>>
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