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American Pacific Golden Plover???? at Boat Harbour, Sydney

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Subject: American Pacific Golden Plover???? at Boat Harbour, Sydney
From: David Stowe <>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:24 +1100
Just a quick note to say i have added a couple of poor images/crops showing the feet/tail in flight to my pbase site. I managed a few shots with both AGP & PGP in the same frame. Shows quite clearly that the feet protrude beyond the tail in the Pacific but not in the "alleged" American GP.

http://www.pbase.com/davidstowe/american_golden_plover

Can i ask - are there any experts that disagree with this becoming labelled as an American Golden Plover??

I also wanted to add my thanks to Tun Pin for the astute and dedicated observations he has made with this bird and doing all the hard work so that those of us less knowledgeable can learn something and also see a beautiful and rare bird.
Thanks Tun Pin!!

Cheers
Dave

On 15/03/2009, at 10:29 PM, David Stowe wrote:

Hi all,
Alistair McKeough and I went down to Boat Harbour late this afternoon and had satisfactory although briefer than hoped for views of the ? American golden Plover?. It was scared off by a party of ravens fighting over an apple!!
Very frustrating but we did get some shots of it before and as it flew.
It was foraging alone but not far from 3 PGP who were also a bit scattered. It was low tide so not ideal. I have posted 3 images to my pbase site including a side on view, a rear view and one in flight which is pretty ordinary but thought it might be interesting for the experts in case it helps? (All are cropped alot but have no post processing beyond a slight sharpen) It flew with 2 PGP way off back to an exposed reef near the NP carpark and didn't return before we left.
(Did you see it Tim?)

http://www.pbase.com/davidstowe/american_golden_plover

Cheers
David Stowe



On 14/03/2009, at 1:41 PM, Troy Mutton wrote:

A few people have asked about my pictures - they are unedited, uncropped, unprocessed, and up here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrtroy/ to get to the full view, click on it, click all sizes, and there's an assortment of sizes there.

Cheers
Troy


-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Mutton
Sent: Sat 14/03/2009 11:14
To: 
Subject: RE: Strange Pacific Golden Plover at Boat Harbour, Sydney

Hi everyone,

It was still there this morning on a low tide, seen by myself and another birder, Chris. As Tun Pin says, it is not showing any signs of breeding plumage. There was a total of 14 obvious PGP's and the mystery bird. I'll post a picture later and send a link to anyone interested. I won't be able to get back there for about 8-9 days, but watching the cycle of breeding plumage among the PGP's and Turnstones is quite interesting at the moment.

Also present were a pair of Double-banded Plovers, the first ones I've seen there this year. Last week there was at least 15 Ruddy Turnstones, today there was only 4-5. Similarly, last week there was a number of RN Stints colouring up, but I couldn't find any in any sort of colour today.

Cheers
Troy


-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Mutton
Sent: Fri 13/03/2009 22:30
To: ; 
Subject: Strange Pacific Golden Plover at Boat Harbour, Sydney

I saw and photographed it last weekend, and I'm going to have another look for it early tomorrow.

Cheers
Troy

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Is the bird still at Boat Harbour?





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