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Warbler

Warbler Watcher

• Apr 20, 2004

• #1

I think I've got this one pinned down but wanted to see what you shorebird experts thought.

 

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Andrew Whitehouse

Professor of Listening

Supporter

• Apr 20, 2004

• #2

Hi Warbler,

These look to me like some splendidly long-billed American race Dunlin. They look very like Andrew S's picture on the plovers thread - much longer-billed than European Dunlins.

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Apr 20, 2004

• #3

They look like Dunlin to me.

 

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HH75

Well-known member

• Apr 20, 2004

• #4

I'd go for Dunlins as well,
Harry

 

weather

Pirate name: Poncy Henry Goodfellow

• Apr 20, 2004

• #5

Sandpiper-like Birds

Dunlin
Calidris alpina

Description 8 1/2" (22 cm). A starling-sized shorebird. Bill fairly long, with distinct droop at tip. Breeding adults have reddish back, whitish underparts, with black patch in center of belly. Winter birds are dull gray, paler below.

Sounds like a Dunlin to me!

Mike

 

Warbler

Warbler Watcher

• Apr 21, 2004

• #6

Yep, I guess you guys are right. They sure are Dunlins, for some reason I just wasn't looking at the bill and was trying to i.d. them from plumage only. I guess I've learned my lesson. Thanks everyone for the help.

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Apr 21, 2004

• #7

Makes me more confident of some of putative hudsonia/sakhalina dunlin I've tentatively recorded... these are like Curlew Sands on structure!

 

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Martin Garner

Well-known member

• May 7, 2004

• #8

Warbler said:

I think I've got this one pinned down but wanted to see what you shorebird experts thought.

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Dear Warbler watcher..just wondered when and where they were photographed......what time of year

Cheers Martin

 

Warbler

Warbler Watcher

• May 7, 2004

• #9

Well, Martin, these are photos taken from a short video clip I took of these birds in Fort Desoto Park (roughly the middle of FL on the western coast) in mid April 2004.

 

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Martin Garner

Well-known member

• May 10, 2004

• #10

Warbler said:

Well, Martin, these are photos taken from a short video clip I took of these birds in Fort Desoto Park (roughly the middle of FL on the western coast) in mid April 2004.

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Thanks very much..just what I wanted to hear....I have twice seen birds just like this, Dunlins that were the size of Curlew Sandpipers with big grey pectoral bands....non-breeders/ 1st summers in N. Ireland in early May...quite different from the normal Western Palearctic Dunlin..and thought they were probably hudsonia...your picture looked just like 'em

Cheers Martin

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• May 10, 2004

• #11

Martin Garner said:

Thanks very much..just what I wanted to hear....I have twice seen birds just like this, Dunlins that were the size of Curlew Sandpipers with big grey pectoral bands....non-breeders/ 1st summers in N. Ireland in early May...quite different from the normal Western Palearctic Dunlin..and thought they were probably hudsonia...your picture looked just like 'em

Cheers Martin

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