However, a number of other species have been reported as occurring in the province but about which information is not wholly satisfactory.
Some reports lack data on the exact time or place of occurrence.
Some reports show a lack of discrimination among two or more possible vagrants a problem that has not been resolved by observations or specimens. Some birds have undoubtedly been correctly identified but almost certainly represent individuals that have escaped from captivity, although not necessarily in Nova Scotia. The following gives a brief account of such species. At least two birds were seen by many observers in summer 1981. However, in some respects the description suggests a Spotted Redshank, although the critical differences in wing pattern were not noted.