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Need help with two shore birds. (1 Viewer)

searobin

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My guess is that the 1st bird is a Red Knot and 2nd Short-billed Dowitcher??
Both pics taken today in US/New Jersey
 

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hi searobin,
it's a red knot alright (together with turnstones and semipalms), you're prob. right with the short-billed d. also, but i'm bad in dowitcher id.
 
JANJ said:
Yes, and very probably SBD, short looking bill, and slightly down-curved closer to the tip, to mention two, among several characters needed to separate SB and LB.

Searobin, you should take a look at this:

http://www.surfbirds.com/ID Articles/dowitchers1005/dowitchers.html

that is to say if you haven´t already?

JanJ

Or instead of sweating on the minutae of plumage and jizz identification you can just cheat and assume, as most eastern birders do that you're not going to see a LB Dowitcher in spring and look for the juvies in fall - it makes life a lot easier ;)

Luke
 
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