30 November 2006
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Dragonflies
This month we had an email enquiry from a
professor working over in the Maldives. He is researching the migratory
patterns of Dragonflies and was curious to know whether we had spotted
any in large numbers recently. It was very coincidental that he called
as the previous night I had been at the bar and a dragonfly had come and
sat down just next to my drink. We have not seen any on the island for a
long while and so I had commented to Nick how nice it was to see them.
The following day I received this email from the professor and in fact
started to see Dragonflies all around the hotel gardens!
Migrant Count - Since last News Update:
Robbie's
weekly count with the maximum number of birds seen on
any day in the month of November is below:
November
  105 Frigatebirds, 38 Grey Plovers, 8 Lesser Sandplovers, 11 Greater
Sandplovers, 4 Crab Plovers, 63
Whimbrels, 230 Turnstones, 8 Sanderlings, 38 Curlew Sandpipers, 1 Golden Plover, 3 Ringed Plover, 6
Bar-tailed Godwit, 5 Greenshanks, 25 Crested Terns, 250 Bridled
Terns, 90
Saunders Little Terns, 2 Common Sandpiper, 12
Red-footed Booby, 15 Moorhens, 1 Grey Heron, 1 Green Backed Heron, 2
Terek Sandpiper, 1 Brown Booby, 1 Common Swift, 1 Common Cuckoo, 1 Barn
Owl, 1 Common House Martin, 1 Red Throated Pipit, 1 Gull-Billed Tern, 1
Blue Pigeon
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