The bill on your bird isn’t two toned, that’s exactly what I mentioned in the beginning. You cannot see a longer tail projection. The legs are green not drab orange. Seems you are seeing what you want too, I’m confident that this is a common sandpiper, seems like others are as well.
Common sandpiper also has a lighter lower mandible- the spotted is more noticeable- yours is barely noticeable. You seem to be looking at the areas of identification of the spotted but not the common.
I'm not sure what's happening here. You seem to be ignoring information - in the literature, in published photos, comments given here, and the appearance of your bird in your own photos and video. Please read my post #12 again:
If you disagree with any of that it would be helpful if you said exactly what - and why - because my contention is that you cannot use anything about tail-length to help identify your bird.
Yes I agree there's a lighter patch here. However, it's barely noticeable (even taking lighting / photo effects into account). On spotted this is usually much clearer than this: like many others I've experience of both species. I don't think this gives you support for spotted.
Agree; Spotted usually has a more obviously bi-coloured bill, the base of both mandibles contrasting more sharply with the dark tip. The bill is also slightly deeper based and finer tipped with an ever so slight down-curve compared with Common.
There's no reason whatsoever to suspect that.
Have you considered A. macularia rava? Formerly common and spotted sandpipers were conspesific. Then divided to two species. After that some autors divide A. macularia as nominate and A. m. rava. But said that differences are minimal, for that reason it is monotipic.. but some autors still believe that there are two subspecies in spotted sanpiper. Western European records seems to comes from East Part of America. But Turkish records questionable. May be from western America through Asia? Just thinking. There is no picture or illustrations about rava subspecies. Only articles which is not a usual way to identifiy a bird..
No, that's not what I said. It's adult because it's moulting its flight feathers in autumn; juveniles don't do this (unless common sandpiper has an unusual moult strategy).
But the end result is the same. It is agreeable that the bird is an adult but not a juvenile. The moulting of the feathers in autumn results in freshness of the plumage😀
Both adults and juveniles have a complete, or mostly complete, post-breeding/post-juvenile moult, respectively, though typically this occurs from October, on the wintering grounds. Adults can, however, sometimes begin this moult, including the tail and tertials and, occasionally, up to six inner primaries, before migrating, which is presumably what is going on here.
