Dowitcher ID (1 Viewer)

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DarkFireFalcon

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• Oct 1, 2013

• #1

I'm curious to see what people think of this dowitcher. The photos aren't all that good, but they show the tail pattern, bill and breast pretty well. Seems to be pretty heavily barred on the flanks, and the molt sequence seems a bit odd (probably due to the wing injury) but everything else points to SB Dowitcher, no?

The photos were taken in Portland, Maine, USA last week (sorry for omitting that from the title).

 

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DarkFireFalcon

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• Oct 1, 2013

• #2

A few more pics

 

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phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Oct 2, 2013

• #3

This molting bird is in bad feather-shape. Though in pic 4 there is a good view of upper-tail. The dark bands here are wider than the white separating bands. This is a LBD feature. AFAIK. But could I id it as such on this piece of evidence? It's a start!
More comments would be welcome.
But I get a hunch that it's a LBD. No money down.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Oct 2, 2013

• #4

It's got that hunchbacked "I swallowed an orange" kind of shape that suggests long-billed to me, but as Phil suggests, it's hard to be sure without more field marks.

 

Tib78

Well-known member

• Oct 2, 2013

• #5

Short-billed IMO.

Structure: not so long bill with a drooping tip and shortish legs.
Plumage: arched supercilium and heavily barred flanks retained from breeding plumage and if nything I'd say the tail pattern favours SBDO as well.

Weird molt sequence indeed...