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--Boundary_(ID_T2XKKFMKoDl7lijVxWfO5w) Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Correction please: I think that what I saw was actually a Short-billed = Dowitcher. However, I am awaiting definitive word from an expert. = Anyone? My bird is much more rufous-colored than the one in Birds of Nova Scotia = (plate 15), but it is whiter n the belly. I never could understand how people can identify certain of these fowl = without a picture, or a specimen. Almost all the early ornithologists = carried a shotgun, and now we know why! On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Paul S. Boyer wrote: > I believe that I saw an Hudsonian Godwit yesterday (13 Jul) on Wedge = Island, St. Margaret's Bay, accompanied by two Semipalmated Sandpipers. >=20 > The Godwit was more like the picture in Birds of Nova Scotia (1986, = Pl. 13) than the picture in Sibley (2000, page 177). My bird has a = solid black beak, looking heavier than those in the illustrations. Can = a shorebird specialist confirm this for me? I managed to get a picture, = which I can send as an email attachment. >=20 > =97 Paul Boyer --Boundary_(ID_T2XKKFMKoDl7lijVxWfO5w) Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = ">Correction please: I think that what I saw was actually a Short-billed = Dowitcher. However, I am awaiting definitive word from an expert. = Anyone?<div><br></div><div>My bird is much more rufous-colored = than the one in <i>Birds of Nova Scotia</i> (plate 15), but it is whiter = n the belly.</div><div><br></div><div>I never could understand how = people can identify certain of these fowl without a picture, or a = specimen. Almost all the early ornithologists carried a shotgun, = and now we know why!</div><div><br><div><br><div><div>On Jul 14, 2010, = at 12:00 PM, Paul S. Boyer wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I believe that I saw an = Hudsonian Godwit yesterday (13 Jul) on Wedge Island, St. Margaret's Bay, = accompanied by two Semipalmated Sandpipers.<div><br></div><div>The = Godwit was more like the picture in <i>Birds of Nova Scotia</i> (1986, = Pl. 13) than the picture in Sibley (2000, page 177). My bird has a = solid black beak, looking heavier than those in the illustrations. = Can a shorebird specialist confirm this for me? I managed to = get a picture, which I can send as an email = attachment.</div><div><br></div><div>=97 Paul = Boyer</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_T2XKKFMKoDl7lijVxWfO5w)--
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