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Here Are Some More Shorebirds All Take In August And All At Fermi Labs In Batavia Illinois. Iding These Birds Is More Of A Challenge Than I Thought It Would Be.

I think the first two pictures are Lesser Yellowlegs. I say that because of the very spotty, brown back, the strongly yellow legs and the lack of a very strong eye ring. I don't think it is a Greater because the streaking doesn't go far enough down the side and the bill is neither upturned nor bicolored.

The third picture has a number of birds including a Semipalmated Plover, a number of Pectoral Sandpipers and I think your Yellowlegs.

With that said, I wouldn't call myself a shorebird expert. I'd wait and get a few more opinions on these birds before naming their species.

I agree with affe that the first two photos are Lesser Yellowlegs. I also recently had an ID question on Yellowlegs (although mine turned out to be Greater). In that thread, JanJ posted a couple of veryhelpful links:

http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Pages/LesserYellowlegsp.html
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Pages/GreaterYellowlegsp.html

Rgds,
_Adam

NAL1212 said:

Here Are Some More Shorebirds All Take In August And All At Fermi Labs In Batavia Illinois. Iding These Birds Is More Of A Challenge Than I Thought It Would Be.

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Affe is correct. The first two are Lesser Yellowlegs, and the third contains mainly Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Semipalmated Plover, and (2) Lesser Yellowlegs.

Nice pics!

Thanks

adampaul said:

I agree with affe that the first two photos are Lesser Yellowlegs. I also recently had an ID question on Yellowlegs (although mine turned out to be Greater). In that thread, JanJ posted a couple of veryhelpful links:

http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Pages/LesserYellowlegsp.html
http://www.geocities.com/tgrey41/Pages/GreaterYellowlegsp.html

Rgds,
_Adam

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THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ID HELP. THE GEOCITIES WEBSITE IS TERRIFIC, IN THE PICTURES AND TEXT THAT IT USES.

NAL1212