Dutch Birding volume 32 (2010) no 5

Grey-tailed Tattler at IJmuiden in July 2010

In the late morning of 28 July 2010, a Grey-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes was briefly seen, photographed and heard by a single observer at IJmuiden, Noord-Holland. The bird was perched on rocks of a pier at 1 km off the North Sea coast. In the afternoon that day, and also the next day, it was searched by many birders but not found again. The identification was based on six photographs and the description of the call. Features differing from Wandering Tattler T incana included the largely white and unmarked underparts, including vent and undertail-coverts; the long and conspicuous super­cilium; the white bands on the uppertail-coverts; the bicoloured bill (in Wandering dark with pale only at base of lower mandible); and the two-noted pjuup-pjuup call. It concerned the first record for the Netherlands and the fourth for Europe and the Western Palearctic. Previous ones were in October-November 1981 in Wales, in November-December 1994 in Scotland, and on 12 July 2003 on Öland, Sweden.

Arno Piek, Lodewijk van Deyssellaan 65, 1985 CH Driehuis, Nederland
(arnopiekquicknet.nl)
Roy Slaterus, Bervoetsbos 71, 2134 PM Hoofddorp, Nederland
(roy.slaterusdutchbirding.nl)