My name is Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl.
I am 12 years old and live in Somerset, in the UK. I am obsessed with birds, passionate about
conservation and love writing. This is
the third part to my Wader Quest...
The next part
of our journey was a 9 week trip to Peru. That was going to be really amazing.
Early in the trip, we birded the Santa Eulalia Canyon in Central Peru,
not far from Lima. We headed off East
from Lima in our “hippy van”, which I loved.
We spent two days birding up the canyon seeing a whole load of endemic
birds, before arriving at Ticlio Bog which was at 4,900 metres. Here we saw the endemic White bellied
Cinclodes and Junin Canastero. However,
my bird of the day was Diademed Sandpiper-Plover which we had unbelievably good
views of. After searching for it for all
those hours in Bolivia, it was fantastic to see it here within ten minutes of
arriving and so early in our Peru trip. This was a good contender for my most
magical wader.
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Diademed Sandpiper-Plover Phegornis mitchellii © Alejandro Tello, Kolibri Expeditions |
Also in Peru I
saw Killdeer, another bird I feel confident that I could identify if I found one
in Britain, as well as Collared Plover, Pied Lapwing, Tawny-throated Dotterel,
Blackish Oystercatcher, the rare Andean Avocet, Peruvian Thick-knee, Hudsonian
Godwit, Surfbird, Semipalmated and Baird's Sandpipers.
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Blackish Oystercatcher Haematopus bachmani; © Alejandro Tello, Kolibri Expeditions |
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Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus griseus; © Dan Vickers |
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Mya-Rose Craig, Bill Lotz and Chris Craig © Helena Craig |
It was great to see all of those waders and I feel really lucky. Diademed Sandpiper-Plover is definitely the
most magical wader I have seen.
My Dad loves
waders and they are his favourite type of bird.
Because he looks at them so much, he is fantastic at differentiating
between them and identifying them. He has tried to pass on those skills to me
and so I love waders too.
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© Helena Craig |
Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig is a young birder, writer and conservationist, her South American wader quest continues in Part Two.
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