Sandpiper in Nebraska (1 Viewer)

Tero

Retired

• Apr 18, 2018

• #1

My reviewer was not convinced it is a Baird's. I have put in one more picture of the tail sticking up. He has not looked at that yet. Legs seem to be dark but never saw the legs well. it is the sandpiper in all the pictures in this eBird list, the plover is a piping plover. That has a complete ring in our inland subspecies.

(Reviewer mentioned another sandpiper but I won's say what as it may confuse thinking)

https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S44661682

 

Tero

Retired

• Apr 18, 2018

• #2

OK never mind. The reviewer now agrees with me. But if you want to take a stab, Go ahead and guess.

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2018

• #3

Could well be least Sandpiper - but I'm looking on a phone

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Apr 18, 2018

• #4

i have nothing to complain about baird's sandpiper - evereything there
not least, jane - note the wing projection.

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Apr 18, 2018

• #5

The last photo sure.... but is it usual for a Bairds to me much smaller than a piping plover - I as trying a two bird theory
https://download.ams.birds.cornell.edu/api/v1/asset/95034131/900

 

Tero

Retired

• Apr 18, 2018

• #6

It's Baird's. The birds were quite far, just barely photographable but I've often found that shorebird size comparison, though useful to have two birds, somehow often fails even side by side.

We have some semipalmated around, but least is barely here yet. And it is too small for pectoral.