Baird's Sandpiper ? Portugal 🇵🇹 (1 Viewer)

[MattG]

Can anyone confirm this Sandpiper as a Baird's Sandpiper please ? Thanks

 

[jogresh]

Hiya, that's a Dunlin. 🙂

 

[Indobirder]

Hiya, that's a Dunlin. 🙂

out of curiosity, how does one exclude curlew sandpiper?

 

[MattG]

Hiya, that's a Dunlin. 🙂

Hi thanks, I thought it looked like a Dunlin as I saw another one but when I I.d this with the Merlin bird app it comes up as a Baird's Sandpiper, if I zoom in it then identify it as a little stint lol. Not very accurate 😕

 

[MattG]

This was the other one I saw

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Indobirder,

A 1cy Curlew Sandpiper has a different pattern on the scapulars: darkish centers wit a black subterminal boarder, creating a scalloped pattern. Sometimes the center is very dark, but the scalloped pattern is still visible/judgeable. And many Curlew Sandpipers have longer wings, crossing like scissors beyond the tail-tip.

Both are 1cy Dunlins I agree with Matt and Jogresh

 

[MattG]

Thanks, very interesting to know it's a 1cy Dunlin👍

 

[Butty]

Black spotty bits on underside are a juvenile dunlin thing - not curlew sandpiper. Curlew sand also usually has a bigger supercilium.