ID Please

dlplumer

Thanks,
Dan

Allen

Haha, I have 100's of these needin' an ID. They are worst then sparrows id'ing.

Nice photo.

pyry

One of these guys maybe, a semipalmated sandpiper?

You'll have to check my work here

dlplumer

pyry wrote:

One of these guys maybe, a semipalpated sandpiper?

You'll have to check my work here

You are good Pyry Do you have these in your head or do you have a cool process for identification you might share.

Thanks,

Dan

pyry

dlplumer wrote:

You are good Pyry Do you have these in your head or do you have a cool process for identification you might share.

I do like the challenge

Same as last time, it's clearly a sandpiper, so I just browse american sandpipers, stints and whathaveyou comparing pictures. If I had a book to look at this would be a lot easier than rummaging around wikipedia and googling (the books I've got cover European birds). Btw IDing becomes easier with info on location, size, habits, voices, etc - especially with the more difficult ones (we have a rather excellent example on that up here: you try telling a chiffchaff and a willow warbler apart until they sing a bit..).

kdog

It's a "reflection bird", and a very good one at that.

dlplumer

kdog wrote:

It's a "reflection bird", and a very good one at that.

Thanks Joel