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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Kevin H. on February 15, 2015, 06:55:12 AM

Title: Another shore bird
Post by: Kevin H. on February 15, 2015, 06:55:12 AM

Again from Florida

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/16535586722_24e60cc3f4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rcccQN)

Title: Re: Another shore bird
Post by: Rotarran on February 15, 2015, 08:54:35 AM

I'm not definitive because Florida could get all sorts of birds I have never seen before, but from the birds I've seen in Ontario, that looks like a Sanderling to me.

Title: Re: Another shore bird
Post by: Reuven_M on February 15, 2015, 09:24:40 AM

Yes, a Sanderling. Most shorebirds, including essentially all of our sandpipers, breed in the arctic so Florida won't get much that we won't. There are some more western species that will go there though - Long-billed Curlew, Western Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit, Western Willet (the last three do show up in Ontario quite regularly).

Title: Re: Another shore bird
Post by: Kevin H. on February 15, 2015, 09:43:22 AM

thanks

Title: Re: Another shore bird
Post by: Kin Lau on February 17, 2015, 07:15:54 PM

The most common shorebirds we found in Florida last week were Sanderling and Willet. It was however very neat to be walking around with a half dozen piping plovers.