Beach Stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) Soldiers Point NSW

Beach Stone-curlew (Esacus magnirostris) Soldiers Point NSW
Canon EOS 7D Lens 400mm L USM 5.6 ISO400 F7.11/2500 available light 21 May 2012 2.25pm
Low tide is the name of the game with this species but more important was the knowledge of these birds provided by Trevor Murray so willingly. Mountainman (Eric Sohn Joo Tan ) also was great baby sitting me after an opoeration. This fella was by passing this crabby old man to get to some emerging soldier crabs a few metres further along to the left. Me? I was trying to say you have just stepped over one !!!
Thanks for viewing
Best regards
Rod Warnock
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Look like Thick-knee....same name?

GREAT PIC.

Thanks Mr No Good and BENCYF.
Yes !! Spot on there has been some flip flopping Thick-knee v Stone-curlew
Best regards
Rod

You have done it perfectly.
Keep them coming.

Mr No Good wrote:Look like Thick-knee....same name?

Hi NG, yes, this is the Beach Thick-knee, Thick-knees are also called stone curlew because of their colorations and habits, their calls sound a bit like curlews, but is however not closely related.


hi Rod,

Your bird will be of great interest to us because this is a very rare species in our region, with potential only vagrancy record now but likely a former resident on some island or coasts. The scientific name should had been updated to "Esacus giganteus" after splitting from the form that is found futher inland towards South-east Asia, which retains that scientific name but gets a common name of "Great Thick-knee/Stone-Curlew".


Hopefully we will find one here in Malaysia as well soon?

Seem like running from someone...



Nice shots

Reminds me about run-runner. Haha

Good one.