Arctic visitor has twitchers in a flap
Submitted by Chickowee on 12 Jan 2015.
A RARE sighting has twitchers flocking from around Australia to Lake Wollumboola.
The last time a white-rumped sandpiper (calidris fuscicollis) was spotted in NSW was in November 1977 near Pitt Town.
Ornithologist Joy Pegler said the bird has been caught up in the wrong migratory fly way ending up on the Australian coastline from Alaska.
