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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: gb_eh on August 06, 2007, 09:13:19 PM

Title: RFI sandpiper but which one?
Post by: gb_eh on August 06, 2007, 09:13:19 PM

Need a hand with the id of these two sandpipers (two different shots of each). They were not together, shot on different days:

1st (suspect this is a chick):
(http://www.pbase.com/gb_eh/image/83427860/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/gb_eh/image/83427863/original.jpg)

2nd:

(http://www.pbase.com/gb_eh/image/83482840/original.jpg)

(http://www.pbase.com/gb_eh/image/83482841/original.jpg)

Title: Semipalmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs
Post by: thouc on August 09, 2007, 12:32:04 AM

The top one looks like a Semipalmated Sandpiper (in winter plumage) with the short, thick bill.
The bottom one I would say is a Lesser Yellowlegs. The bill doesn't look long enough for a Greater.

/Thomas