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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: newfoundlander61 on August 21, 2010, 09:11:45 AM

Title: Short Billed Dowithcher
Post by: newfoundlander61 on August 21, 2010, 09:11:45 AM

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4784359986_133b79455a.jpg)

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Post by: Cody on August 25, 2010, 12:40:28 PM

Great shot!

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Post by: thouc on August 25, 2010, 05:30:30 PM

I believe this actually might be a juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher. According to National Geographics field guide the juv. Long-billed "is darker above, greyer below than Short-billed; tertials and greater wing coverts are plain, with thin gray edges and rufous tips", which seems to fit with the bird in the picture.

/Thomas

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Post by: newfoundlander61 on August 25, 2010, 07:19:15 PM

Could very well be a juv Lbdw. Thanks for the input, I mess up shorebirds all the time.