NAM Verbeek 1966 Calidris baardi (1) 6 June In our explorations this morning, from between 09:00 ad 11:00 we saw or heard about a dozen Baard's Sandpipers. Some were engaged in the flight song which sounds louder and harsher than that of the Red-back, but it also has the frog-like quality, i.e. phonetically it has a lot of nothing r's. This afternoon - 16:45 to 17:45 Steve and I watched a pair of them. At first they stood quietly peering themselves. They then began to feed and we got some feeding data from them. 7 June. I observed one Baard's feeding on a bare patch of tundra. 8 June. Two Baard's fed company of 4 Red-backs along the W. shore of Honey Bucket lagoon. These are the only two birds I saw today. 9 June On the S. end of Beach Bridge I saw two Baard's. Steve and I saw them there before on 6 June. They seem to peek more than they jab. 12 June I observed a single male Baard's in the act of making a nest bowl, by pressing his chest into the ground and rotating himself. He then stepped out and picked up pieces of straw and lichen which he flicked sideways - the direction of the nest. Then he went back to the nest bowl and rotated some more, and he flicked some more pieces of grass while he was in the nest. He then walked out of the nest and was still flicking pieces of grass when he was about 40 cm away from the nest. When I walked over to the nest there were a few pieces inside the bowl.