Hi,
I went to Boat Harbour on Saturday morning and met up with close to 20 birders,
mostly birding-ausers to look for the American Golden Plover. Even the ranger
at the gate entrance is aware of the bird also. There were birders from Sydney
region, Wollongong and Melbourne, some novice(at least in wader watching) and
some very experienced.
The bird did not seem to gain any noticeable new plumage since my previous trip
on 08 March. The bird still looked very dull despite other Pacific Golden
Plover has gained much of breeding plumage. The weather was mostly sunny and
great for photography and scoping. The bird was easy to locate but tucked its
head half of the time.
Chatting with many birders that the bird may leave anytime soon, based on the
timing of Pacific Golden Plover's departure in last season at the same site.
I was expected to submit a report to BARC soon after the bird has departed,
with the assistance from many. Would appreciate anyone has additional
observation/notes/photos to furnish, particularly in the areas of flight, call,
behaviour etc that would further support its identification to AGP, or towards
PGP.
Following is link to the photos taken on Sat 28/03/2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009mar28/
Happy Twitching,
TunPin ONG
PS: Apology for not recognising many names at the site, would be nice if you
could drop me a private email to say hi.
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Tun Pin Ong <> wrote:
> From: Tun Pin Ong <>
> Subject: Strange Pacific Golden Plover at Boat Harbour, Sydney
> To:
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 11:19 PM
> Hi,
>
> The questionable Golden Plover was still at Boat Harbour
> when I saw it on 08 Mar. It has some characteristics of
> American Golden Plover although the ID has not been
> positively confirmed yet. I have discussed with a few
> birding-ausers offline, the ID sometimes leans towards PGP
> and sometimes towards AGP, the situation changes as the
> moulting progress or as we get more inputs from the
> participants. At the moment, it seems that it leans more
> towards AGP but any of your new findings or observations may
> shift it either way, like tug-of-war.
>
> 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.
>
> Some of the recent photos are found in the links below
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009mar08/
Photo taken by Nikolas Haass on 01/03/2009 - nice side-by-side of the birds for
comparision.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009mar08/
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009feb22/
>
>
> Earlier photos are found in following but most of them are
> not very helpful in ID because the bird was still in
> moulting.
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009jan23/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009feb12/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009jan16/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunpin/tags/2009jan12/
>
> Best regards,
> TunPin Ong
> Currently based in Canberra
>
>
>
>
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