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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