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Subject: Birds in 2019
From: Jason Polak <>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 22:48:57 -0500
First, I want to say, I love your card (the Gang-gang is one of my favourites, and I first saw it around Lorne)! Great birds. Quite interesting hybrids. I've never seen these hybrids before.

But I am really excited about your question of the Northern Shoveler and Pectoral Sandpiper. Obviously you meant Australia, and in that case it is quite hard to even see the Northern Shoveler, but here happens to be an eBird list where my wife and I saw both on the same day -- in Canada:

https://ebird.org/checklist/S60944231

I even included a picture of the sandpiper!

Jason

On 2019-12-13 5:57 p.m., Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
Over several years I have amused myself by composing a birdy Christmas card.  Appended is a reduced version of this year’s offering. With the exception of the Little Bittern (from 30 Dec 2018) all were snapped around Canberra this year. It occurs to me that there can be nowhere else that such a combination could be found in the course of a single year. The inclusion of the hybrid honeyeater (New Holland x White-cheeked) and lorikeet (Rainbow x Musk) surely guarantees a unique outcome. However, apart from that, has anywhere else had a Northern Shoveler _and_ a Pectoral Sandpiper?   Geoffrey

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