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A Grey-tailed Tattler at Long Reef.
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A shot showing the nasal groove.
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A juvenile in flight. The underwing coverts of Wandering are supposed to be darker than Grey-tailed, according to Brazil's Birds of East Asia. I would guess that's a pretty difficult thing to judge in the field!
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Seeing waders roosting on a rock platform was a pleasant change from sandbars and and prawn ponds!
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Some of these Red-necked Stints had very prominent 'split supercilia'.
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A first winter still with some juvenile scapulars.
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Birds started feeding in rock pools as the tide went down.
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An adult 'PGP'.
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Ruddy Turnstones - widespread, seldom numerous, always smart!
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The two species of oystercatcher - Sooty and Pied, the latter a heavily colour-ringed bird on Phillip Island.
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