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Paris, Ile de France, France
conservation biologist, father, WP lister, bird ringer, life enjoyer

02/12/2011

Long-toed Stint = 687


I went last Sunday (27th) at La turballe salt pans to twitch the first-winter long-toed Stint found there on 3rd November. Within a group of dunlins - and a few little stints - the LTS is moving in and out the lagune depending on waders' movements (sometimes flushed away by a flying-by sparrowhak or hen harrier). The bird arrived soon after sunrise at 9:20am, and was still on site when I left at 10:50am, while it started raining. On the pictures, the dark underwing bars, plainer and darker upperwing than in dunlins, and long toes projecting beyond the tail, are all clearly visible.
This was not a lifer for me, as I saw many in China in August 1994, but it was a WP tick - n°687.



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