Cancún. Mexico. Confirmation (1 Viewer)

[testoduro]

Last week. Can you confirm my identification of these 5 birds? Thank you!

Pic 1 , from left to right: a) Semipalmated Sandpiper b) Sanderling c) Short-Billed Dowitcher
Pic 2. Yellow Warbler
Pic. 3 Short- Billed Dowitcher (the one in the middle) No way to know the others flanking it.

 

[Butty]

1. Hate to disagree with them all, but...
a) Looks surprisingly like piping plover which I guess would be rare - so presumably it's a bright-legged semipalmated plover with plumage unusually like a snowy plover?? Dunno.
b) Dunlin.
c) Stilt sandpiper. No, it must be a dowitcher at an odd angle.
2. Looks right.

 

[testoduro]

Thanks, Butt!
Sorry, I have little knowledge of new world species, so I 'm likely to make bad blunders.

I enclose another pic of bird a) in pic.1 , which certainly looks too pale to be a Semipalmated Plover. A Piping Plover seems like a better bet.

 

[Microtus]

The plover iin #1 is a Piping Plover, I believe.

 

[Maroon Jay]

Yes, sure looks like a Piping Plover to me.

 

[njlarsen]

Would be worthwhile making an ebird submission of the piping plover.
Niels

 

[lou salomon]

pic 1. Piping Plover, Western Sandpiper rather than Dunlin and SBD.

 

[DMW]

Worth noting, perhaps, that the Piping Plover is ringed (banded).

 

[Butty]

Is it?