Shore Bird ID request

GraphyFotoz

Harry or someone out there....can you help?

I think this is a immature but of what I can't decide! :scratch
Got this at the local Nature Center this Morning......think he was just passing threw?

jwear

sandpiper

z_28

Sanderling

GraphyFotoz

jwear wrote:

sandpiper

What I was thinking but the Imm plumage throws me on these Shore Birds!

z_28

GraphyFotoz wrote:

What I was thinking but the Imm plumage throws me on these Shore Birds!

Maybe it will help ?
http://www.birdphotography.com/species/sand.html
or
http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Calidris_alba

GraphyFotoz

z_28 wrote:

Maybe it will help ?
http://www.birdphotography.com/species/sand.html
or
http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Calidris_alba

Guess it could be......they don't show the imm in brown plumage tho.

Harryb

Looks like a sanderling to me.

gluwater

I'm going to have to disagree with the class here. I think it is a Solitary Sandpiper For one thing, Sanderlings have black legs.

GraphyFotoz

gluwater wrote:

I'm going to have to disagree with the class here. I think it is a Solitary Sandpiper For one thing, Sanderlings have black legs.

BRAVO!! Looks like you nailed it Glu!!!

THANX!!

jwear

jwear wrote:

sandpiper

sandpiper

GraphyFotoz

jwear wrote:

sandpiper

Looks like it!

Either way it's a Life Bird to add to my Life List......#97 so far.

z_28

Sanderling is a sandpiper anyway
Who cares about color of stockings