Strange Pacific Golden Plover at Boat Harbour, Sydney

[L&L Knight <>]

The difference is that BBS are easily recognised while AGP are easily  
overlooked.  I suspect that there are more AGP visits to Australia  
than BBS visits.
The twitchers conundrum is:
If a rarite flew in,
And nobody conclusively identified it,
Was it really there?


On 12/03/2009, at 10:19 PM, Tun Pin Ong wrote:

> I also learn from the group that there are about 20 records of Buff- 
> breasted Sandpiper in Australia but I am sure there are far less  
> than that of American Golden Plovers reported in Australia.
> Although the ID is still under debate, it may be worthwhile for some  
> of you to take a look (before it departs) to see if you could  
> further support the ID to either Golden Plovers. Or if you think  
> that this is simply not worthy to have a secord look then please let  
> us know also.
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