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There were twenty Whimbrel and a couple of Bar-tailed Godwits - easy to overlook when they're asleep.
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After seeing adult 'baueri' Bar-tailed with plain unbarred tails in Australia, I was especially keen to get a look at the tails of these birds. Only one obliged, and, as far as I could see, this 'menzbieri' adult had an unbarred, plain brown tail!
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Common Greenshanks were the most numerous species after Whimbrel.
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The flock was rushing about in the shallows chasing fish - mudskippers by the look of this one.
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This is a still from a video clip. I was surprised at how white the lesser underwing coverts were on this bird. White underwing coverts are a feature of Nordmann's Greenshanks. Common usually has well-barred underwing coverts, as here, but this is obviously more variable than I had realized.
So, after all, a not unproductive visit to my old birding haunt!
Nope! Looks like a catfish to
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