| | Sandgrouse - Cotton Teal in Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | N THE MORNING of 9 April 1997, I was leading a Naturetrek tour at Aqaba sewage works when my attention was drawn to a small greyish bird amongst Garganey Anas querquedula and Teal Anas crecca. |
 | | Since the bird was smaller than the adjacent Teal, I realised it was something unexpected. |
 | | The bird was shown to the group before I concluded that it was a female Cotton Teal Nettapus coromandelianus, the first record in Jordan (Andrews 1995). |
| www.osme.org /sand192/cteal.html (299 words) |