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Rutland water (1 Viewer)
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mooskibaby
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lou salomon
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looks like a juvenile common tern.
mooskibaby
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The little one at the back. It has black legs. Common terns have red legs. I’m flumuxed haha
Andy Adcock
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In the first shot it does not look like a wader at all, second shot maybe Little Stint?
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mooskibaby
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Both are the same bird from different angles. Someone thought a little sting here
mooskibaby
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People are thinking it may be a Bairds sandpiper
SteveClifton
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Looks like an adult Sanderling in summer plumage
Andy Adcock
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Being reported as Baird's now by Birdguides.
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SteveClifton
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That figures! 8-P
Andy Adcock
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Should have said RBA
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Nutcracker
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"Now believed to be a Sanderling"
https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=361846
Think I'd agree, though tricky from these pics alone
https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=361846
Think I'd agree, though tricky from these pics alone
Andy Adcock
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Nutcracker
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Females and 1st summers are quite grey, it's only adult summer males that have a lot of bright orange :t:
Paul Longland
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I saw this bird today. It didn't behave like a sanderling. It also seemed to have the flattened back oval shape for Bairds when viewed from behind. The photo also seems to show the primaries projecting beyond the tail which they do not in sanderling.
mooskibaby
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Does anyone have any better photographs? Unfortunately mine were digiscoped with no adapter so aren’t good quality.
Looks like a great case of let's tick off what everyone else says it is, without running through the ID for ourselves to see if it's anything else, especially so, given the confusion on here alone surrounding its' identity. It pays to stop and think, or is this the way birding/twitching is going these days?
Nutcracker
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They often don't, when they're not chasing waves on a sandy beach!
They often do, though not by as much as in Baird's; see e.g.:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2012-01-18_13-06-17_Spain_Canarias_Jandía.jpg
Maybe depends on how the bird is holding its wings?
