Wader, Akrotiri, Cyprus 08/08/2017 (1 Viewer)

ColinD

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2017

• #1

Can somebody please put me out of my misery and tell me what this wader is from Akrotiri today. It seemed larger than a little stint, more like dunlin size, but the bill and plumage seem wrong for what would surely be a juvenile if it was a dunlin. To me it looks more like an adult something. I guess that it is an adult little stint though, but it just seems odd. Thanks a lot in advance.

 

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Stuart Darbyshire

45th generation Northern

• Aug 8, 2017

• #2

Looks like a Little Stint to me

 

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SteveClifton

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2017

• #3

ColinD said:

I guess that it is an adult little stint though, but it just seems odd. Thanks a lot in advance.

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Stick with your gut feeling

 

shropshirelad63

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2017

• #4

Why not White Rumped?

 

Nutcracker

Stop Brexit!

• Aug 8, 2017

• #5

Ditto to Little Stint

shropshirelad63 said:

Why not White Rumped?

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Too brown (W-r is greyer), and the wings too short (W-r is very long-winged)

 

shropshirelad63

Well-known member

• Aug 9, 2017

• #6

Take your point, but Dunlin size? there is a big diff tween Dunlin and Stint as you know, this is a very recent pic of White Rumped, primaries barely extending beyond tail

 

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Grahame Walbridge

Well-known member

• Aug 9, 2017

• #7

The wing-tip=tail tip as seen clearly in image 2. Note the bird has totally clean flanks which is not a feature of WRS. How are you judging size when it appears to be alone?

It's an Adult Little Stint.

Grahame.

 

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Rotherbirder

Well-known member

• Aug 9, 2017

• #8

It doesn't have the deep-bodied, front-heavy profile of WRS when feeding and it lacks the fine-tipped, evenly downcurved bill which is fairly typical of WRS so, adult Little Stint it is for me too.