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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Niloc on March 07, 2010, 02:30:17 PM

Title: need help please identify
Post by: Niloc on March 07, 2010, 02:30:17 PM

Can anyone tell me what bird this is..taken a the Spit last June, not the greatest pics but it's all I could get at a distance...I thought it was a Sandpiper but the chest colouring threw me off....

http://www.colinmarcano.com/photo4514265.html#photo (http://www.colinmarcano.com/photo4514265.html#photo)
http://www.colinmarcano.com/photo4514271.html#photo (http://www.colinmarcano.com/photo4514271.html#photo)

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Post by: Mark D on March 07, 2010, 03:23:28 PM

It looks to me like a solitary sandpiper.

Mark

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Post by: Niloc on March 07, 2010, 03:31:08 PM

Mark good call, I checked all 3 bird books I have and in the Audubon North American Birds Eastern Region there is a picture very similar with colour to match..thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Title: Lesser Yellowlegs...
Post by: bernie2112 on March 09, 2010, 11:10:48 PM

By the size of the bill, the shape and the colour of the legs I would say this is a Lesser Yellowlegs.

Cheers,

Bernie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniemonette (http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniemonette)