Sandpiper - Panjin, Liaoning, China (1 Viewer)

[Owen Krout]

Checking out the local marsh and encountered several of these for which I'm not making a successful ID. Managed to get good photo and at first thought of Common or Green Sandpiper, but the birds in flight had a clear, distinct, fanned out, bright pure white tail marking and gray color on legs.

Panjin, Liaoning, China - July 28, 2021

 

[Butty]

Green sandpiper. They have white rump/uppertail-coverts and dark/barred tail.

 

[Owen Krout]

Green sandpiper. They have white rump/uppertail-coverts and dark/barred tail.

Thanks, Butty. Field guide shows with black markings on tail, which was throwing me, but I thought I remembered pure white in previous sightings.

 

[Butty]

It's the prominent square white rump contrasting with all-dark wings that you notice. Common sandpiper is obvious by its wing-pattern and flight-action.

 

[MKinHK]

Green Sandpiper for me too.

The first returning birds have already arrived back in Hong Kong Owen

Cheers
Mike