Mike, you say "thousands of waders". How proportion of this would be
over-wintering migratory birds [DBPs?] and are there normally
thousands of waders there in winter?
Regards, Laurie.
On 01/07/2010, at 5:54 PM, Mike Carter wrote:
Geoff McDonald, who was with Clive Minton & Susan Taylor when this
plover later ID'd as a Semi-palmated was discovered, advises that it
was not seen when he was banding there on Monday 28 June. I suspect
that the banders were concentrating on catching the waders on the
isolated sand bar rather than looking for one rare bird among the
thousands of waders there and on the adjacent spit. They were
successful in banding 160 Bar-tailed Godwits. So not good news but
not necessarily bad.
We will now submit the record for assessment by BARC.
Mike Carter
30 Canadian Bay Road
Mount Eliza VIC 3930
Tel (03) 9787 7136
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