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Hi, Paul.
I'd be glad to help with the ID, if you send me the photo. Shorebirds =
are great, once you get the knack of them!
Cheers,
Susann Myers
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Paul S. Boyer=20
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Not Hudsonian Godwit; Dowitcher
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.
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.
=97 Paul Boyer
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi, Paul.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I'd be glad to help with the ID, if you =
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them!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Susann Myers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 14, 2010 =
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NatureNS] Not =
Hudsonian=20
Godwit; Dowitcher</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Correction please: I think that what I saw was actually =
a=20
Short-billed Dowitcher. However, I am awaiting definitive word =
from an=20
expert. Anyone?
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>My bird is much more rufous-colored than the one in <I>Birds of =
Nova=20
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=20
without a picture, or a specimen. Almost all the early =
ornithologists=20
carried a shotgun, and now we know why!</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>
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believe that I saw an Hudsonian Godwit yesterday (13 Jul) on Wedge =
Island,=20
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>=20
(1986, Pl. 13) than the picture in Sibley (2000, page 177). My =
bird=20
has a solid black beak, looking heavier than those in the =
illustrations.=20
Can a shorebird specialist confirm this for me? I =
managed to get=20
a picture, which I can send as an email attachment.</DIV>
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