Hey Ontbirders. I have been watching the Ontbirds listserv avidly as I usually
do when traveling abroad and I picked up on the Buff-breasted Sandpipers being
reported which I always love to see each August.
I am in Iquitos, Peru at the moment and yesterday afternoon while birding the
waterfront (the river is out almost 1 km now in the dry season!) I encountered
a flock of approximately 200+ shorebirds (mostly Pectoral Sandpipers) and 91 of
them were Buff-breasted Sandpipers! Clearly a high count for me and thought it
would be cool to report this given that birders are still seeing this species
in Ontario - thousands of kilometers to the north!
Cheers,
Andrew Keaveney
Field Biologist/Ornithologist, Bird and Wildlife Guide
647-383-8894 (cell)
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of
the world"
~ John Muir
"Live, eat, breathe birds"
~ Twitcher
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