The curlew found in the Netherlands in June is provoking heated discussion - especially now that the Texan Eskimo Curlew photos of 1962 are being analysed by today’s experts. If you’re not subscribed to the ID Frontiers listserve clicking here will take you to the Archives. Fascinating…
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I read on Birdforum the same guy in Holland saw SBC on the same location previously - a lucky observer indeed
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=117714&highlight=eskimo
the photo analysis is very interesting though and seeing James Bond listed in the citations always makes me chuckle.
Some people make their own luck…
I find it kind of funny he immediately jumped to an extinct bird from a different continent instead of say, the far more likely and still extant Little Curlew.