Flagged Pied Oystercatcher - SE Qld

["Russ Lamb" <>]

Colin,
        "Queensland Wader", the newsletter of the QWSG, regularly reports 
each issue on leg flagged and banded shorebirds. The Pied Oystercatcher you 
saw is not from the NW of WA, but was flagged in NSW. It's part of a project 
tracking movements of PO's from Victoria & NSW (Victorian flagged birds also 
have yellow leg flags and numbers, but on the right tibia). I can't recall 
who are the originators or managers of this project.
     PO's thus flagged have been regularly seen & reported from SEQ wader 
sites over the past couple of years.
      QWSG requests that all leg flagged sightings in Qld (incl. these 
PO's) be reported to QWSG's Phil Cross .
Russ Lamb, Maleny,SEQ