I decided this afternoon to do some easy birding as I haven't been feeling the best lately. So rather than go on a jungle walk I took out the car for a drive around the grassy areas behind the seawall.
To my surprise there were two oriental plovers on the pitch next to the clinic. Not only a great find for Panaga, but also a lifer for me. I suspect one of the birds to be a juvenile, the other an adult loosing its breeding plumage.
The second rarity drove up to my car ten minutes later, a fellow birder in the name of Kolbjorn. In my 5 years in Brunei I have never met another birder unplanned in the field; there clearly is a first for everything. We spend a good amount of time to get a photo of the plovers. There was still some distance to overcome, but in the end I did manage to get some keeper shots.
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| Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus) |
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| Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus) |
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| Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus) |
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| Oriental plover (Charadrius veredus) |
Folkert, 04/10/2014
Congratulations! Please let one fly here to Sabah :p
ReplyDeleteThanks Zaim; your ruddy-breasted crake is also not to be sniffed at!
ReplyDeleteNice bird, and a nice clean BG on the Oriental Plover shots !
ReplyDeleteThanks, I was quite pleased to still "score" a lifer in the last 2 weeks!
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