Friday, August 22, 2014

Feathers on Friday

A bunch of small shorebirds in Churchill, I am not sure what they are. Maybe Sanderlings??? Please help me with the identification.
Sanderlings???

Here is Prairie Birders post
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  1. NeilAugust 25, 2014 at 5:17 PM

    Could they be Baird's Sandpipers? I believe you're in their migration path.

    Here's a similar image I found that claims to be mostly Baird's.

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  2. NeilAugust 25, 2014 at 5:18 PM

    Oops! Here's that link: http://jerryjourdan.blogspot.ca/2010/08/two-hour-birding-28-aug-2010.html

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    1. Josiah Van EgmondAugust 25, 2014 at 8:59 PM

      Thanks, but I sent it to Christian Artuso and he said they were Sanderlings. Thanks anyway!

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  3. NeilAugust 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM

    I'd definitely take his advice over my guess :-)

    I've never seen Sanderlings, though with good fortune I may on Friday. Presumably these are in adult breeding plumage (the buff throats), but are the dark lines on the wing edges definitive?

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    1. Josiah Van EgmondAugust 26, 2014 at 5:28 PM

      I sent him some other pictures of them I took also, showing the over wing and them landing, so he identified them from those, he asked if I had any others when I first showed him this picture.

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  4. NeilAugust 30, 2014 at 4:55 PM

    That would help. Just to say that we got good fortune yesterday, and saw 3 Sanderlings (immature) - as well as many, many more migrant shorebirds. Maybe BirdBoy will post some pictures.

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