The wader season is back here again!
The following birds sighted at Kuala Baram Lagoon, 16.08.09 :
50+ Great Crested Terns with juveniles
60+ Little Terns with juveniles
Gull-billed Tern
Terek Sandpiper
Common Redshank still in breeding colors
Greater Sandplover some still in breeding colors
Lesser Sandplover some still in breeding colors
Pacific Golden Plovers in partial breedig colors
Long-toed Stint
Red-necked Stint
Red Knot
Greenshank
Malaysian Plover, a single male seen in it's breeding colors.
Common Sandpiper
Chinese Egret
Great Egret
Pacific Reef Egret
Little Egret
Whimbrel, one single individual ... who stopped, looked around and continued his way south.
Though their numbers are not in the thousands, it's still most exhilarating to scan through the flats and pick out old friends from previous season. One longtime expected visitor was the Whimbrel, must've been separated from it's main group somehow.
Terns flying together. There's at least 3 species in there.
A mixed group of Greater Crested Tern and Little Tern adults and juveniles resting together. Foraging pairs will drop by with little morsels for their young now and again to a big racket on the ground.
A pair of Little Terns foraging together for a juvenile on the flats nearby.
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