Wading bird ID, Sanibel Island, Fla., US (1 Viewer)

[prweasel]

I photographed this bird wading in Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Fla. I have a lot of trouble distinguishing the different types of wading birds but I want to be sure I have the ID correct when I post the photo to my web sites.

Any help you can provide on a correct ID will be appreciated.

pat

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Willet

 

[prweasel]

Thanks, Andrew. I'm going through photos I got during wildlife shoots on a Florida trip. I shot some things I typically don't see here in the frozen north.

 

[KC Foggin]

A lovely image of this Willet Pat

 

[Nutcracker]

Willet, and for future reference (pending the species being split), likely Western Willet (which winters east to Florida as well as out west), as Eastern Willets all leave N America in winter :t: