Thursday 21 January 2021

Waders of the Lost Ark - Part I

With Christoph haning rampaged across the whole of the day and night we didn't ever step across the threshold of Slight Return II, but a phone call from daughter now resident in Phnom Penh was like a Ray of Sunshine, particularly swapping notes!

So while things in the Wider, Wilder, World remain somewhat subdued, again we reach for the archive, not to disappoint our Valued Readership, and present a photomontage of one of the most facinating family groups of Birds on Earth including location and date of first sighting - The Waders! Starting with 2 of the most bizarre

HAMMERCOP
Madagascar - 2010
and
WRYBILL
New Zealand - 2008
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
Scilly Isles, UK - 1992
RED-NECKED AVOCET
Australia - 2008
TWO-BANDED PLOVER
Falkland Islands - 2007
WESTERN SANDPIPER
Chile - 2003
AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHER
Peru - 2003
NEW ZEALAND DOTTERAL
also 2008
SEMI-PALMATED PLOVER
England - 1973
 KILLDEER
copulating

USA - 1995

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