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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: moratorian on August 29, 2007, 06:21:06 AM

Title: Shorebird ID Please!
Post by: moratorian on August 29, 2007, 06:21:06 AM

Shorebirds drive me nuts  :?   I have tentatively identified this bird as a Least Sandpiper or a Baird's Sandpiper (unlikely) or a ?. Photographed at Ward's Island on Tuesday. Behavioral note: occasionally one of the birds would briefly sit down. I hadn't seen that before in a shorebird.

http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mardu ... orebirda_1 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Marduss-Birds/Unknown_Shorebirda_1)

Title: ID
Post by: Joe on August 29, 2007, 08:25:31 AM

I'm thinking Least Sandpiper.

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Post by: Kin Lau on August 29, 2007, 09:27:43 AM

I see yellowish-green legs on the one in the front, so Least Sp sounds good to me. It's hard to see if rear bird has yellowish-green or greyish-black - which would indicate Semi-palmated.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on August 29, 2007, 12:52:31 PM

I'm not sure, but it looks like a Least in the foreground and a Semi-palmated in the background.

The one in the background appears to have darker legs and a stouter, straighter bill.

BB

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Post by: moratorian on August 29, 2007, 02:55:42 PM

Thanks. There were 4 birds. They looked the same and seemed to act as a group. Here's two more pictures of the birds.

http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mardu ... orebirda_2 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Marduss-Birds/Unknown_Shorebirda_2)
http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mardu ... orebirda_3 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Marduss-Birds/Unknown_Shorebirda_3)

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Post by: Kin Lau on August 29, 2007, 04:17:57 PM

On Monday, we had about 30 peeps on the mudflats at Pringles Creeks/Brock St Bridge in Whitby, and they were a mixed flock of Least & Semi-Palmated SP's as well.

Those last two look like Least as well... at least the legs look green.

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on September 09, 2007, 10:01:29 PM

The latter two photos show Least sp. too. Thin bill, yellow/green legs and overall brownish plumage.

--Andreas

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Post by: Mr.Tubby on September 22, 2007, 11:23:36 PM

Hi Moratorian,

I tried to view some of your shorebird fotos but seems that they may have been taken down. Anyway, I was re-directed to a site that may have the pictures in question. Suffice to say that the 3rd picture showing three birds is indeed of (clockwise from top left) a Sanderling, a Least Sandpiper, and a Baird's Sandpiper. Excellent picture! The Baird's shows the primary projection really well. If I'm looking at the wrong foto then I apologise for perhaps IDing birds that you had already ID'd.

All the best

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Post by: Andreas Jonsson on September 23, 2007, 01:17:28 AM

Welcome to the forum Tubby!

The photo of the triplet of shorebirds that you referred to is a different one, taken some weekends back on Toronto Island. Glad you like it! Not sure where moratorian's photos have gone.

--Andreas

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Post by: moratorian on September 23, 2007, 07:45:24 AM

Sorry. What happened is that I changed the name of the album. Here is the new link.

http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mikes ... orebirda_1 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mikes-Birds/Unknown_Shorebirda_1)
http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mikes ... orebirda_3 (http://outdoorontario.net/Gallery/Mikes-Birds/Unknown_Shorebirda_3)