27/10/2026
When your birding guests, finally say; we've seen most of the waders, lets go see if we can find that Baird's (they've seen it a couple times on birding tours to South America ẁere it comes from) ypu keep talking about 🙈
Meet the latest celebrity out at Walvis Bay Salt Pans, today 25 October 2026.
First specimen recorded/caught by Andersson on 24 October 1863 at Walvis Bay.
Yep, literally 200 years ago.
This would be the third record for Namibia - and my 552 Namibian lifer (from when I started listing again in 2019)
Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)