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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #1

Hey Guys,

New here and a complete novice.

I am currently on a seismic vessel in the Outer Moray Firth and came across this little guy on the helideck.

It would be great if anyone could identify it.

P.s sorry for the quality, the internet isn't great!

 

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Southern Frogmouth

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #2

It could be a Dunlin. Try putting that into Google and looking at a few photos if you can.

Cheers

Roy

 

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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #3

TringBirder said:

It could be a Dunlin. Try putting that into Google and looking at a few photos if you can.

Cheers

Roy

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Thanks Roy,

The beak certainly looks the same. The only difference I can see is that it didn't have any brown on the belly, just white (Could be seasonal?) and it didn't seem quite as lean as the ones on google images, a bit more like a robin.

I thought it may be some time of sandpiper but I guess Dunlin is more likely.

Here is another photo which is even worse than the first

Thanks,

Sam

 

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Mark Lew1s

My real name is Mark Lewis

• Jul 21, 2015

• #4

It certainly looks like a dunlin in the first picture. However, if the legs are actually the pale greeny colour that they appear on the second picture (on my monitor at least) then that would rule that out. I get the feeling that that might just be an photographic artifact though.

 

KenM

Well-known member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #5

I'm thinking that the bill may be half the suggested length, the rest being shadow into the (body shadow), the leg tone could well be a ''photo artefact'', note that the pp is longer rather than shorter...thus it might be a Little Stint?

Cheers

 

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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #6

Hi Mark - Yeh I'm pretty sure that is just my poor photography skills. It was also at midnight so it is all artificial lighting.

Thanks ken, I've not ever seen a little stint before but the colouring does look very similar based on google images. It would account for the white belly too, although I'm not sure about the beak. It did seem a little longer in person.

I guess I won't find out definitively but the different opinions are very helpful.
Either way, beats the usual fulmars!

Thanks,

Sam

 

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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 21, 2015

• #7

KenM said:

I'm thinking that the bill may be half the suggested length, the rest being shadow into the (body shadow), the leg tone could well be a ''photo artefact'', note that the pp is longer rather than shorter...thus it might be a Little Stint?

Cheers

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Ahh here is another photo that shows that perhaps you were right and the bill is shorter! Little stint? (Also has the darker patch along the top of the head)

 

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phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Jul 22, 2015

• #8

After seeing last pic? I'm thinking Temminck's Stint. Could be gloriously mistaken though.......

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Jul 22, 2015

• #9

Pale legs in the second pic also suggest Temminck's, though tricky with the pic quality!

 

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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 22, 2015

• #10

Ahh thanks guys.
I shall endeavour to find him again and take a clearer photo!
I didn't think the Temminck's would come up so far north?

Sam

 

Steve_Halstead

Sparrow or Crow?

• Jul 22, 2015

• #11

Don't laugh too hard at me here, some is expected.

The legs look T Stint, the body looks Dunlin

The fact that it seems dormant/sleeping in the first pic takes me away from T stint though as they act like sanderling, constantly running as if "clock-work" etc

I will now look through replies so I can see that my observations have already been rendered defunct.

Do you get many birds on the rig?

 

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Samwisegamgee

Member

• Jul 22, 2015

• #12

Hi Steve.
I should have put something about the behaviour. It was constantly running around like a headless chicken and as soon as I stopped walking he came to check me out which is when I took the photo. As soon as I moved he was off again searching for God knows what.

I'm on a ship which finds oil and gas, currently near some rigs. There are some birds that fly past that I can't identify but it's hard to get a photo worth posting!

Cheers

Sam