For all of those who might be interested in where some of “our” shorebirds go. Iquitos is on the Amazon River in the middle of the Amazon Basin. Amazing that they already have lots of shorebirds that far south.
Larry S From: mailto:[email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:54 AM To: Birdingperu Subject: [Birdingperu] Shorebird passage at Iquitos Hola con todos, This morning (September 11) I went down to the mudflats in front of downtown Iquitos to see what shorebirds might be around. Buff-breasted Sandpipers were abundant, and I dashed about the mudflat from sub-flock to sub-flock trying to obtain an accurate count. This proved impossible, but eventually the majority of the sub-flocks briefly united as a "super-flock", permitting an exact lower-bound count of 313 individuals. This is nearly double eBird's previous high count for this species in Peru, which I made in the same location two years ago. Though these birds aren't "exotic" to a Norteamericano, truly the shorebird passage is one of the finest birding spectacles in Loreto! Cheers, Jacob Socolar Other shorebirds present at Iquitos of late: Today (Malecon mudflats): 11 Upland Sandpipers, 5 Collared Plover, and 3 Pectoral Sandpipers. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19799876 30 August (Moronacocha): 2 Black-necked Stilts, 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 12 Greater Yellowlegs, and 84 Pectoral Sandpipers. http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19613356 29 August: A South American Snipe flew over downtown Iquitos at 11:40 PM. Various dates: Spotted Sandpipers __._,_.___ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Jacob Socolar <[email protected]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) Visit Your Group • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
