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Pectoral Sandpiper was an excellent find at RSPB Cors Ddyga on Saturday.
But they have nothing on the male
pectoral sandpiper which avoids sleeping for weeks so as not to miss out on any mating opportunities.
Painted snipe, Eurasian woodcock, Kittlitz's plover have been observed and even buff-breasted sandpiper,
pectoral sandpiper, lesser yellowlegs and Wilson's phalarope are on the national checklist.
On October 6, a wading bird that was sighted by a bird watcher at the Mirfa Water Treatment Plant turned out to be the
Pectoral Sandpiper, the fourth record so far in the UAE (Mirfa is about a 2.5 hour drive from Dubai towards the Saudi border).
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pectoral sandpiper has already found the reserve.
He says: "We did a guided bird watch two weeks ago and we saw a rare wader, a
pectoral sandpiper. There were people who didn't know anything about birds and we were helping them out.
Key words: Calidris melanotos; dynamic programming; landscape; migration strategy; model;
Pectoral Sandpiper; shorebird; stopovers.
The most common species are the Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, and
Pectoral Sandpiper. Several rare shorebirds (sensu Mumford & Keller 1984) have also been recorded at Roxanna Pond.
Other unusual birds include a Curlew Sandpiper on the Alaw estuary, with a
Pectoral Sandpiper reported there on Sunday.
Species could be categorized into one of four groups on the basis of similar patterns of density (Table 4): 1) a coastal group that had higher densities on the OCP and included the ruddy turnstone, dunlin,
pectoral sandpiper, and red phalarope; 2) a widespread group that had approximately equal densities on the OCP and ICP and included the black-bellied plover, semipalmated sandpiper, longbilled dowitcher, and red-necked phalarope; 3) an inland group that had higher densities on the ICP and included the American golden-plover and stilt sandpiper; and 4) a group of species encountered in low numbers that could not be compared between regions, and which have high uncertainty associated with their estimates (bar-tailed godwit, Baird's sandpiper, and buff-breasted sandpiper).
RSPB Conwy's second
Pectoral Sandpiper of the autumn dropped in last week, with Curlew Sandpiper, Guillemot and Garganey among the other sightings.
In our analysis, uniparental shorebird species included
pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos), buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), and the phalarope species (Phalaropus spp.).
pectoral sandpiper - American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting