Showing posts with label Curlew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curlew. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Some waders at Tinagat, Tawau end November 2011

It is the migrating season again, visits to Tinagat beach were rewarded with these waders.

I managed to record a new lifer, Grey-tailed Tattler Heteroscelis brevipes.

 A section of the hundreds of Great Knot, which is the commonest waders here.
 Grey-tailed Tattler, my lifer.
 Two Great Egrets, showing the range in size.
 Lesser Frigatebird, L to R, adult ♀, adult ♂ and immature.
 Eurasian Curlew
 Eurasian Curlew, showing its diagnostic white rump.
 Broad-billed Sandpiper
 Terek Sandpiper
 Bar-tailed Godwit with a Great Knot
 Pond Heron, suspected to be Chinese instead of Javan as they are only around during the northern winter, however, it is not possible to positively confirm in this eclipse plumage.
 Common Redshank
 A composite of diving Little Tern
 A Mangrove Skink Emoia atrocostata
 Common Greenshank
Far-eastern Curlew.
Happy birding.

Photodocument of Wild Birds of Borneo.

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