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Shore Bird ID request

GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
edited May 4, 2007 in Wildlife
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?

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    jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,005 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    sandpiper headscratch.gif
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    z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    Sanderling
    :)
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    jwear wrote:
    sandpiper headscratch.gif

    What I was thinking but the Imm plumage throws me on these Shore Birds! rolleyes1.gif
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    z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    What I was thinking but the Imm plumage throws me on these Shore Birds! rolleyes1.gif
    Maybe it will help ?
    http://www.birdphotography.com/species/sand.html
    or
    http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Calidris_alba
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 3, 2007
    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. ne_nau.gif
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    HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    Looks like a sanderling to me.
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    gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    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.
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    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.

    clap.gif BRAVO!! Looks like you nailed it Glu!!!clap.gif

    THANX!! thumb.gif
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    jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,005 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    jwear wrote:
    sandpiper headscratch.gif
    sandpiper :Dthumb.gif
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    GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    jwear wrote:
    sandpiper :Dthumb.gif

    Looks like it!

    Either way it's a Life Bird to add to my Life List......#97 so far. thumb.gif
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    z_28z_28 Registered Users Posts: 956 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2007
    Sanderling is a sandpiper anyway :D
    Who cares about color of stockings wings.gif
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