First stop was a construction site near Bako-Buntal Bay. It held only 17 Little Ringed and 4 Kentish Plovers. Next, we moved on to Bako-Buntal Bay (#3 on the map) to watch the movement of birds as the tide fell.
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This Chinese Egret fed close by but the rain made photographing it less than satisfactory.
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Aggression posture in response to another Chinese Egret landing close by.
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From BBB went headed west to Rombongan (#5 on the map), where Daniel was able to drive along the beach. Numbers were low, comprising only a few species. Malaysian Plovers were dotted regularly along the beach in pairs, usually on or near some shoreline debris. This is a female.
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So are these.
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A male.
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And a pair.
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A Kentish Plover.
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And a fleeing Lesser Sand Plover.
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Terek Sandpiper.
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Terek Sandpiper lunch!
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In the afternoon, we moved to Sejingkat to conduct the field component of the Waterbird Workshop. Over 40 people gathered in a suburban carpark clad in khaki green and carrying suspiciously weapon-like hardware, but we managed to move off to the more secluded ashponds without being arrested for a staging an attempted coup!
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The weather behaved itself pretty well, and the birds performed to order, so the participants were able to get to work on the challenging work of taking field-notes and identifying those hitherto anonymous brown blobs!
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Fieldcraft! Making good use of available cover and avoiding breaking the skyline are some of the keys to getting good, sustained views.
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Counting and scribing practice!
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