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Photography => Non-Ontario Birds => Topic started by: mc on October 23, 2015, 04:01:45 PM

Title: fort de soto florida -- bird id
Post by: mc on October 23, 2015, 04:01:45 PM

hi, having trouble with shorebird identification.....this picture was taken october 19, 2015 at fort de soto florida...i think this is a wilson's plover...please help

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/641/22230384089_0508a03c49_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zSqwGi)Plover Id request Fort De Soto Florida 20151019 (https://flic.kr/p/zSqwGi) by mc birding (https://www.flickr.com/photos/130396495@N05/), on Flickr

Title: Re: fort de soto florida -- bird id
Post by: Reuven_M on October 23, 2015, 06:28:37 PM

Semipalmated - the bill is too short for Wilson's

Title: Re: fort de soto florida -- bird id
Post by: mc on October 23, 2015, 06:36:33 PM

thanks so much reuven.....kris also thought it was a Semipalmated plover -- but why no orange on legs and bill....all my guides did not point this out to me....

Title: Re: fort de soto florida -- bird id
Post by: thouc on October 24, 2015, 12:45:04 PM

Juveniles have dark legs and bill and lack eye-ring.

Title: Re: fort de soto florida -- bird id
Post by: mc on October 26, 2015, 03:49:57 PM

thanks thouc.......the dark legs misled me...hehehe LOTS mislead me about shorebirds!!