[NatureNS] Marsh bird in Kegi-ID please

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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 06:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>
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Hi Greg
Would Least Bittern fill the ID?
Not very common but heard of. CWS would be interested
if that is what it is.
Nice sighting
Paul

--- Greg Dobbin <dobbin@upei.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am curious about a bird I saw this past weekend in
> Kegi while 
> canoing on the Mersey River. It looked like a willet
> or a rail 
> perhaps? It was a large bird, with its neck
> stretched upward it must 
> have been 30 plus cm. It mottled brown on the breast
> with yellow up 
> thru the neck toward the underparts of the head. It
> allowed us to 
> approach within 4 or 5 feet. I either saw 2 or the
> same one twice in 
> different parts of the river. It was hanging around
> the reeds at the 
> edge of the water in both instances.
> Thanks.
> Greg
> Greg Dobbin
> Research Assistant
> Dept. of Pathology and Microbiology
> Atlantic Veterinary College, UPEI
> Phone: (902)566-0744
> Fax: (902)566-0851(to my attention)
> 


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