ID Challenge #11 - closes 14 May 2011

[Neil Fitzgerald]

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Answers for this challenge are due by replying to this topic by midnight (NZST) on Saturday 14 May 2011.

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Answers will not be visible to anyone else until after the closing date.

The winner of the 2010-2011 ID Quiz will get one free place on a scheduled Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ pelagic trip, AND each person who enters this challenge goes into the draw to win a pair of Nikon Travelite V 8x25CF binoculars just for having a go, thanks to Photo & Video International.

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[simon.fordham]

Banded dotterel

[philbattley]

As I forgot to even answer last month's quiz (and would have got it wrong anyway...), I'll vote for Banded Dotterel aka Double-banded Plover immediately on this one!

Phil

[tim]

lesser sand plover

[ledzep]

Juvenile Banded Dotterel. Doesn't seem to be enough orange and legs too short for Mongolian Dotterel. Its got the brown back and dumpy look of a Banded Dotterel.

[Byrd]

a Charadrius dotterel, my first thought was banded dotterel but the dark legs make me think instead that it must be...

Mongolian (lesser sand) dotterel C. mongolus

(fingers crossed)

[kotare]

Banded dotterel

[Will Parsons]

My guess is it's a stint and after the last tricky challenge I'll go for a Little!

[David Riddell]

I keep thinking there must be a trick, but it looks just like a banded dotterel to me.

[igor]

banded dotterel