Another erratic listing of shorebird species (and rough numbers) headed south at Tokyo Bay and surrounding rice fields on 19 August 2007: Common Snipe (1) Bar-tailed Godwit (3) Marsh Sandpiper (2) Common Greenshank (10) Wood Sandpiper (10) Terek Sandpiper (4) Common Sandpiper (2) Grey-tailed Tattler (50) Ruddy Turnstone (30) Red Knot (2) Sanderling (100) Rufous-necked Stint (50) Temminck's Stint (2) Long-toed Stint (8) Pectoral Sandpiper (1) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (2) Ruff (4) Pacific Golden-Plover (100) Grey Plover (10) Little Ringed Plover (20) Mongolian Plover (10) Other species seen by party members: Great Knot, Kentish Plover, Greater Sand Plover, Black-winged Stilt. The only surprise was the Pectoral Sandpiper-- we get very few of these coming through.