[NatureNS] Curlew Sandpiper

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:29:25 -0300
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All:

Rita Viau sent some very nice photos she had taken of an adult Curlew Sandpiper
at River Bourgeois, Richmond Co., on Sunday 24 August.  I was largely in Basic
Plumage, but with little washes of chestnut remaining ventrally from the
Alternate (breeding) plumage.

There have now been nearly 30 sightings of this Old-World vagrant here, more
than half since Tufts' third edition (1986), but still a rare sight.

Rita has given the o.k. so I placed one photo on the NS-RBA photo site for all
to admire. Note the rangey structure, with long neck and small head, and long
projection of wings and tail - quite unlike the somewhat look-alike Dunlin.

Cheers, Ian McLaren

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