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Re: Who is using white alphanumeric flags on knots??

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:40 am
by andrewcrossland
Hi folks, back in NZ now and flicking through dozens of photographs from Pantai Jono in Sumatra - I've found a distant shot of what I assume is the white-flagged bird as its about 20m away from the spot where I saw the bird. However I'm not 100% sure as there's no obvious lettering and lthough a really crappy pic that doesn't show bill structure very well, some of the checst, flank markings suggests this one is a Great Knot rather than Red Knot, so maybe infact not the same bird.

As you can see, the group of birds in the foreground is a mix of Red Knot and Great Knot. The bird is by itself foraging over dead coral in the background.

Here's the full photo and a couple of enlargements. Its too grainy to make out letters although they were obvious thru a scope in the field.

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Re: Who is using white alphanumeric flags on knots??

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 9:55 am
by andrewcrossland
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A nice little combined count at this site (Pantai Jono) and an adjacent secondary roost about 1000m west along the beach (Pantai Perjuangan):

25 Pacific Golden Plover
556 Lesser SandPlover
30 Large Sand Plover
3 White-faced Plover
1 Kentish Plover
152 Whimbrel
180 Bar-tailed Godwit
3 Black-tailed Godwit
1282 Great Knot
622 Red Knot
120 Curlew Sandpiper
28 Broad-billed Sandpiper
101 Red-necked Stint
436 Common Redshank
80 Terek Sandpiper
17 Common Sandpiper
18 Sanderling
172 Asian Dowitcher
13 Turnstone

Re: Who is using white alphanumeric flags on knots??

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:14 am
by David Melville
Looks like a white alpha/numeric with a black above - Chongming Dongtan, Shanghai.
David