Shorebird ID?

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  oflory

• 1 Sep 2020

The bird in the foreground - sanderling? The other sanderlings (one pictured in the background) all had winter plumage, which makes me doubt myself! Taken yesterday in Thames Estuary, UK

 

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  amur leopard

• 1 Sep 2020

I'm pretty sure it's a sanderling in partial winter plumage

 

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  oflory

• 1 Sep 2020

@amur leopard Brilliant, thanks! Small brownish waders always make me nervous...

 

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  AdrianW1963

• 1 Sep 2020

The Sanderling at the front looks like a Juvenile and the Sanderling at the back looks very much like a Non-Breeding Adult

 

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  BerdNerd

• 8 Sep 2020

I think the speckled ones in the back are Ruddy Turnstones, I don't know though.

 

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  oflory

• 8 Sep 2020

@EternalPigeon They are!