On Mon, 6 May 1996, Raymond Korpi wrote:
> Had a flagged western sandpiper at the South Jetty Sunday afternoon.
> Does anybody have the key that was posted last fall or the address to
> send this info to. The flag was red over gold (could've been white but
> it looked gold from the distacne where we were). RK

Yahoo! red/yellow = Mexico, red/white = Panama

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>From jmorlan at slip.net Tue Sep 5 09:15:02 1995

PAN AMERICAN SHOREBIRD PROGRAM FLAG CODES

NORTH AMERICA
Canada - white
Mexico - red over yellow
United States - dark green

CENTRAL AMERICA
Honduras - red over gray
Costa Rica - red over black
Guatemala - red over orange
Nicaragua - red over dark green
Belize - red over light green
El Salvador - red over blue
Panama - red over white

CARIBBEAN ISLANDS
Haiti - yellow over red
Puerto Rico - yellow over dark green
Dominican Republic - yellow over white

SOUTH AMERICA
Venezuela - black
Suriname - light green
Columbia - light green over yellow
Ecuador - light green over red
Guyana - light green over dark green
French Guiana - light green over blue
Peru - yellow
Brazil - blue
Chile - red
Bolivia - blue
Paraguay - orange over yellow
Uruguay - orange over blue
Argentina - orange

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Michael R. Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html