American GP - STILL MIA AT PENRHYN

["Graham Buchan" <>]

Folks,

I was down at Penrhyn from 6.15 to about 7.45 - no Golden Plovers around at 
high tide. There was though a Pied Oystercatcher (an occasional visitor only).

I met Simon Blanchflower (who was there at 6am) and David Mitford (who's coming 
back around high tide). I'm going down again about 1.30pm, with high tide about 
2.15pm.

For those who wish to understand the difficulties of ID and reliable field 
indicators please look up the attached paper, which ends "...some of the latter 
(questionable plovers in non-breeding plumage) will be impossible to identify 
with certainty."
Morphometric features of Pacific and American Golden-Plovers with comments on 
field identification OSCAR W. JOHNSON & PATRICIA M. JOHNSON

Cheers,

Graham Buchan
0432 88 00 76
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