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First record of grey-tailed tattler Tringa (Heteroscelus) brevipes in mainland sumatra, Indonesia

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Stilt 67 (2015): 31-32 First record of Grey-tailed Tattler in mainland Sumatra
FIRST RECORD OF GREY-TAILED TATTLER TRINGA (HETEROSCELUS) BREVIPES
IN MAINLAND SUMATRA, INDONESIA
RIKI RAHMANSYAH1 & MUHAMMAD IQBAL2
1Bencoolen Bird Watching, Jl. Sepakat 6 Kampung Melayu, Bengkulu, Indonesia. Email:
rahmansyah.riki@gmail.com
2Daemeter Consulting, Jalan Tangkuban Perahu No. 6 Bogor, West Java 16151, Indonesia. Email:
kpbsos26@yahoo.com
The Grey-tailed Tattler was first recorded in Sumatra
during 1999–2000 when a single bird was observed on
two occasions on Siberut Island, West Sumatra
(Grantham & Kemp 2000, Kemp 2000). There have
been no further records of the species until recently,
with a record from Belitung Island of East Sumatra on
21 February 2014 (Iqbal et al. 2014). All previous
records of Grey-tailed Tattler from the Sumatran region
were from offshore islands (Grantham & Kemp 2000,
Kemp 2000, Iqbal et al. 2014); to date there have been
none for the Sumatra mainland.
On 9 October 2014, RR observed one Grey-tailed
Tattler on a mud-sandy beach at Jenggalu river
(3°50'16.23"S, 102°17'35.20"E). Jenggalu River is part
of Pantai Panjang beach which is administratively in
Gading Cempaka, Bengkulu city, Bengkulu province
(Figure 1). The bird was identified as a Grey-tailed
Tattler by plain grey upperparts, a light grey wash on the
upper breast, the white supercilium, a rather stout
straight bill and shortish yellow legs (Figure 2). These
characters fit well with the non-breeding description of
Grey-tailed Tattler in various field guides (Hayman et
al. 1986, MacKinnon & Phillipps 1993, Sonobe & Usui
1993, Gills & Wiersma 1996, Chandler 2009, Robson
2011). This brings the total number of records of Grey-
tailed Tattler on mainland Sumatra to two, this one from
Pantai Panjang beach (Bengkulu Province) and the other
from the same location on 6 November 2014. In view of
the numbers of Grey-tailed Tattlers that use the East
Asian-Australasian Flyway, it is really quite strange that
the species should be so scarce on Sumatra. However, it
is generally uncommon between Japan and Australia,
which suggests that most birds undertake nonstop flights
across this region, although some stop in the Philippines
(Bamford et al. 2008). Similarly, Higgins and Davies
(1996) point out that the species is a rare passage
migrant in much of south-east Asia during southward
migration. During northward migration, the species is a
common in northern Australia and it has been estimated
that some birds are capable of flying nonstop from
north-west Australia to the Philippines or southern
China (Bamford et al. 2008).
Figure 1. Map of Sumatra
showing the location where
Grey
-tailed Tattler observed
in Bengkulu during the study
(black square). Previous
(offshore) records are
indicated with a black
triangle and black circle.
Stilt 67 (2015): 31-32 First record of Grey-tailed Tattler in mainland Sumatra
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(©Riki Rahmansyah).
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