Gull and Wader ID - Japan (1 Viewer)

[misikuru]

Hello! Can someone help me ID these birds please?

1. 2. It's larger than Black tailed gulls. Is it a Slaty-backed?
3. I think the bigger ones are Red-necked stints, but I can't ID the smallest, second from right. A juvenile RNS?

I saw them last week on the beach in Niigata prefecture, Japan.

Thanks!

 

[Butty]

3. All but the closest are sanderlings.

 

[rascolnicov]

Hello! Can someone help me ID these birds please?

1. 2. It's larger than Black tailed gulls. Is it a Slaty-backed?
3. I think the bigger ones are Red-necked stints, but I can't ID the smallest, second from right. A juvenile RNS?

I saw them last week on the beach in Niigata prefecture, Japan.

Thanks!

The closest in the third picture might be Semipalmated Sandpiper.
I see these together with sanderlings a lot nowadays in NJ (as well as Semipalmated Plovers, NOT in pictures of this post)

 

[Grahame Walbridge]

1-2 Yes, Slaty-backed Gull
3 Yes juv Red-necked Stint.

Grahame

 

[THE_FERN]

Semipalmated Sandpiper.

Probably possible but surely very unlikely in Japan

 

[vergan]

1-2 Yes, Slaty-backed Gull
3 Yes juv Red-necked Stint.

Grahame

Seems red ned-necked to me too.

 

[misikuru]

Thank you so much everyone! So,
1. 2. Slaty-backed gull
3. Sanderlings and a Red-necked stint