Masters of Mystery

Solutions of the Fifth round 2008

IX This bird could be identified as a Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus. It was photographed at bird ringing station Meijendel, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands by Ben Wielstra. The identification of the bird is extensively discussed in Dutch Birding 30: 413-414, 2008.

X This bird depicted in mystery photograph VI is a Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis. It was photographed at the Red Sea coast of Egypt on 3 October 2007 by Edwin Winkel. The identification of the bird is discussed in Dutch Birding 30: 413-414, 2008.

Winners
From those subscribed to Dutch Birding, 8 out of the 22 entrants (36%) managed to identify both mystery birds correctly. From these, Hans Larsson was drawn as the winner of a copy of Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton. Congratulations to him!

The names of all entrants with at least one correct identification can be viewed here.

From 2007 onwards, only subcribers of Dutch Birding are allowed to join the Masters of Mystery contest of Dutch Birding.