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lbaia

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Hi,
Probably most of them are the normal wood sandpipers, but wanted to make sure. Sorry for the photo quality, taken from quite far and with terrible light, not much detail.
1 and 2 I think are wood sandpipers
3 i'm intrigued by the downcurved beak. Dunlin? or sth else?
4 could it be a golden plover for the posture?

Thanks
Luis
 

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I think you are correct for 1 and 2, 4 looks more like wood sand to me, the bill looks long for GP.
For 3, I'm not sure that is the bill thats curved, is it vegetation?
 
I think you are correct for 1 and 2, 4 looks more like wood sand to me, the bill looks long for GP.
For 3, I'm not sure that is the bill thats curved, is it vegetation?

You are probably right, there's probably some vegetation and distorts the bill. Unfortunately I cannot make much more of the photos, they are already highly cropped.
 
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