Hi Bob,
Don't i like to read about rare Shorebirds. Since we been to the Ocean,
including Bottle Beach looking at hundert's of Western Sandpipers. I Try to
make one in to a Rufous-necked Stint. This bird was so bright rusty
colour,this bird looked different than all the other Western. But the only
think was the bill typical lenght and slightly decurved. Remember i mention
Stint to you before i left. It is way overdue in Washington to find this
species.We made an effort to check expecial all the Sandpipers verry
careful
over. We did not see one Least Sandpiper today in all the places we went.
Ruth
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> From: Norton360 at aol.com
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Forward: [BIRDWG01] Siberian shorebird pulse to the Atlantic
Coast
> Date: Saturday, July 24, 1999 9:53 PM
>
>
> This is forwarded from Frontiers of Bird Identification. I thought it
> had something to say to TWEETERS.
> Bob Norton
> norton360 at aol.com
>
>
> In a message dated 7/24/99 6:33:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> pabuckley at GSOSUN1.GSO.URI.EDU writes:
>
> <<
> In the last month or so, the following Siberian/Palaearctic shorebirds
have
> been credibly reported on the Atlantic coast. As is typical of
southbound
> shorebird vagrants early in the season, all have [probably] been
> breeding-plumaged adults:
>
> Wood Sandpiper in Maine
> Red-necked Stint in Massachusetts
> Little Stint at Cape May,
>
> and earlier this week,
>
> Spotted Redshank on Long Island, NY,
>
> and then today,
>
> Mongolian Plover in RI.
>
> As well, there have already been several Ruffs in New England, more than
> normal, although I am unaware of any Curlew Sandpipers, another July
> speciality, yet.
>
> [A Terek Sandpiper on Trinidad in this same period, only the second
known
> from South America, probably fits this model, as may the _variegatus_
> Whimbrel found mid June in the California desert.]
>
> While late June-July Siberian shorebirds are an expected and eagerly
> awaited, near-annual phenomenon, the richness and widespread nature of
this
> array seems out of the ordinary.
>
> Among the panoply of potential players on this stage, at one time or
> another most Palaearctic shorebirds have already made it to the Atlantic
> Coast. But those that have NOT yet done so, and which observers might do
> well to be thinking about, include the following, some of which present
> serious ID challenges:
>
> Little Ringed Plover
> Marsh Sandpiper
> Green Sandpiper
> Grey-tailed Tattler
> Common Sandpiper
> Little Curlew
> Far Eastern Curlew
> _melanuroides_ Black-tailed Godwit
> Great Knot
> Temminck's Stint
> Long-toed Stint
> Spoon-billed Sandpiper
> [Eurasian] Common Snipe
> Pintail Snipe, and
> Oriental Pratincole.
>
> Two other North American endemics that migrate long distances are also
> overdue on the Atantic Coast, yet my guess is that most observers have
> probably never considered them possible there:
>
> Bristle-thighed Curlew, and
> Surfbird.
>
> But how many remember that Surfbird has occurred in Alberta, inland in
> California, more than once in both Florida and Texas, and as close to
the
> Atlantic Coast as Presque Isle on Lake Erie, in PENNSYLVANIA?
>
> The remaining three North American endemics that have never made it to
the
> Atlantic (or Gulf) Coast -- Black Turnstone, Black Oystercatcher, and
Rock
> Sandpiper -- have to date shown no history of long-distance vagrancy.
>
> But still: how many of us have REALLY looked closely at wintering
Purple
> Sandpipers -- especially on the Great Lakes?
>
> Finally, five more shorebirds with a good history of long-distance
vagrancy
> remain to be recorded anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. It's probably
> only a matter of time, patience, skill, and luck before each is
detected,
> most more than likely as southbound adults in early to mid summer:
>
> Greater Sandplover
> Caspian Plover
> Nordmann's Greenshank
> Asiatic Dowitcher, and
> Great Snipe.
>
> And July used to be a such a dull time...
> >>