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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Anonymous on August 23, 2007, 10:48:45 PM

Title: RFI-Long-billed Dowitcher and sandpiper
Post by: Anonymous on August 23, 2007, 10:48:45 PM

I could use some confirmation on this one, I saw two of these on the shore of Lake Ontario, by our pond in Port Hope.
Short-billed or Long-billed
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375090.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375090.html)
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375086.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375086.html)
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375088.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375088.html)

I also need some assistance on this little guy, I have called it a Least sandpiper.
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375091.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375091.html)
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375089.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44375089.html)
Thanks
Art:)

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Post by: Anonymous on August 23, 2007, 11:08:36 PM

I just noticed the post by JTF on the shorebird, it looks like the same bird.
This is what I based my ID on.
http://www.ofo.ca/photos/images/longbilleddow/lbdow.htm (http://www.ofo.ca/photos/images/longbilleddow/lbdow.htm)

Title: Ref RFI
Post by: JTF on August 24, 2007, 08:06:00 AM

I found my at the amherstview sewage lagoons, I am not sure how much longer the bill is with the long billed vs short billed.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on August 24, 2007, 08:44:15 PM

I'm no shorebird expert, and I think the dowitchers are very tricky to separate, but the short-billed are far more common around here.  I always assume they are short-billed unless I see or hear something that makes me think otherwise.  They look like short-billed to me.

With the black legs and the stout bill, your sandpiper looks like a semipalmated.

BB

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Post by: Anonymous on August 25, 2007, 09:51:19 PM

Thanks very much for the assistance:):)
Art

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Post by: Mr.Tubby on September 22, 2007, 11:43:16 PM

Bit late on this one, I know, but I reckon the larger of the two peeps is a Baird's. Perhpas you'd already worked that one out! I'm certainly not well up on my shorebirds so if this contradicts anything that has already been said about this bird then just treat my e-mail as a suggetion.

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on September 23, 2007, 01:24:48 AM

Semipalmated and Baird's in my opinion.