Sanderlings

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  ThylacineAlive

• 20 Sep 2013

Manasota Beach- Sanderlings. August 2013.

 

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  vogelcommando

• 20 Sep 2013

I'll say Common sandpiper.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 20 Sep 2013

vogelcommando said:

I'll say Common sandpiper.

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Are you sure? The Wikipedia range for the Common Sandpiper doesn't mention North America, not to mention that Manasota Beach in in the Gulf of Mexico so I'd be surprised if a European/African vagrant came to here.

~Thylo

 

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  Ituri

• 20 Sep 2013

Definitely not a common sandpiper or its American equivalent the spotted sandpiper. Not sure which Calidris this is.

 

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  vogelcommando

• 20 Sep 2013

Didn't actualy notice the picture was made in America but the Common is seen now and then on the west-coast, however the Gulf of Mexico is realy out of it's range.
Could it then be the Least Sandpiper ?

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 20 Sep 2013

Well it appears to me as though the Least Sandpiper has more orangish colored legs and these birds have black ones.

~Thylo

 

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  gentle lemur

• 20 Sep 2013

Sanderling moulting into winter plumage? Their poses look like the non-stop motion of sanderling near the tideline.

Alan

 

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  Ituri

• 20 Sep 2013

Sanderling had crossed my mind. Definite possibility.

 

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  ThylacineAlive

• 20 Sep 2013

Here's another view of one standing still. Let's see if that helps. It's standing next my other unidentified bird in another picture.

~Thylo

 

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  Ituri

• 21 Sep 2013

Looks good for sanderling to me