ID query - a Dunlin ? (1 Viewer)

IanF

Moderator

• Sep 23, 2003

• #1

Is this just a Dunlin or something else ?

When only Dunlins were about I had no problem with them, but there are just so many waders around at the moment I'm all confused - yet again :-C

 

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CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Sep 23, 2003

• #2

Definitely a Dunlin, Ian.

 

L

logos

Well-known member

• Sep 23, 2003

• #3

Yes, a juvenile Dunlin moulting into first-winter. 1 whole row of juvenile scapulars have been replaced by plain grey feathers.

Spud

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Sep 23, 2003

• #4

The black 'fuzz' on the belly is diagnostic for juv Dunlin - no other Calidris has this (solid black in adult summer Dunlin of course).

The nearest to it is the smudge higher up on the lower breast on summer adult Rock Sandpiper (a North Pacific species not recorded in Britain, and with yellow legs too)

Michael

 

IanF

Moderator

• Sep 23, 2003

• #5

Thanks guys.

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Sep 23, 2003

• #6

Talk about "the Three Stooges".....