I see birdguides have just put this out as "possibly of the race orientalis" - anyone know anything about this race.... back to the books fo rme.
How much weight do you give to 15-year-old observations? Personally, every time I see a rare wader it feels like I'm seeing it for the first time, even if I've seen several before. But then, I am going senile... I think... (can't remember, really)Tim Allwood said:Well Postie, the rarity level and id problems may go hand in hand but many people have seen SBC in Morocco 15 odd years ago - these two birds in question are far from straight forward to id as SBC unlike the Moroccan birds
Andrew said::eek!: The world's rarest bird comes to the UK and only twenty turns up!