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This is a really tough picture! Hard to be sure even about the genus... I'd vaguely suggest Little Stint. Did you have the impression of a very small wader?
 
Funny, Grey Plover was my first thought too, but then I started taking blurriness into account. Could the bill look thicker on a cropped and blurred photo like this? However, no problem to call it a Grey Plover...
 
I am confused. how can it be a grey plover with the thick white supercillium and the white band around the neck? And the reddish buff under the front wing?
 
Marjo Glerum said:
I am confused. how can it be a grey plover with the thick white supercillium and the white band around the neck? And the reddish buff under the front wing?
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Structure is 100% Grey Plover; I think that the apparently anomalous features that you mention are a result of photographic artefacts/prevailing light conditions.

RB
 
I'll be mocked no doubt for saying this but I am crap at waders, my initial reaction was Grey Phal!

It is an odd shot.


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