Shorebird Identification made EASY...well, easier.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Shorebird identification isn't as hard as it looks. The same tricks work everywhere. Take a lesson from the Downeast coast of Maine, where white-rumped, western and Baird's sandpipers hide amongst the least and semipalmated sandpipers, nearly crowding out the semipalmated and black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, whimbrels, et.al.
Very good thanks. I'm going to be in Maine in June so am enjoying and learning from your videos. My sense of humour too.....
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Great tips!! Keep the em coming!!
Enjoying these...just discovered your videos! 🐦👍👍
I hope you have as much fun watching as I do making them.
😊 I am!!
I would say that 'turnstone' is a sanderling moulting to winter plumage
Nice job Bob
Great vid very educational...even if I stay in the UK.
Hi. I agree with Dutchbirder, the supposed Ruddy Turnstone shown in the video is in fact a Sanderling. A Big error. But the video is very nice and useful...
I agree with Dutchbirder, too. Thanks!
You lost me at the three different gulls 😅
You know I'd say the pair that's most troublesome for me is sanderlings and semipalmated sandpipers - they are both less brown and more gray than the rest of their cousins, with dark legs and short thick slightly drooping bills. The size is pretty different but that can be tough when there's nothing to compare to, right... So what else can be a key for separating these two that i might be missing?
Certainly size and frostiness is the first thing I notice. But you're right, color is pretty consistent in the sandpipers but varies a bit in the sanderlings. Fortunately, their habits are recognizably different. Sanderlings are almost always along the edge of the beach, seldom deep in the mudflat puddles. They also tend to forage close to each other. Naturally, when they're close to any of the peeps, they look considerably bigger.
I don't think it is a Turnstone. Looks like a Sanderling.
This is perfect, i just finished up at Kettle Cove in Portland and had no idea what anything was. Pretty sure there were semipalmated plovers and a mix of sandpipers(no idea what kind until i review the footage) thanks alot Bob!
Great. The easiest way to think about it is this: Almost all of the birds are the same few species. Get used to them, and suddenly you begin to notice those birds that aren't quite like the others. Enlightenment comes not when you say, "Hey, that's a white-rumped sandpiper!" It comes when you say, "Hey, that's not a least or semipalmated sandpiper!"
Razorbill!
Yes, please more tips and tricks to ID peeps and bigger shorebirds.
Thanks, Bob! Great video.
Very well explained Sorebirds....Liked...
Nice educational and funny video. I enjoyed it so much! Warm regards from Peru!
I do like humility, it is refreshing. Fall shorebirds, along with the age differences and seasonal plumage require careful observation. I often tell photographers that if they shoot video they are more likely to get a correct ID, since to listers, and extreme birders, the ID is of prime importance. Good clean video, as well as good audio. May head up to South Bristol next week. Migrations of shorebirds? One of my favorite times of the year.
Yeah, one of my favorite things to do is to remind the world that good birders only got good by making mistakes - lots of them! I learn much more from my incorrect identifications than my correct ones.
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It was a quick look at that weird ruddy; -the legs looked dark and bill looked slighter than most. Maybe a young female?
Also, thanks for sharing your hot spots. Love it up there. Those mudflats are impressive.
Agreed. I had the luxury of a little more time with the bird, but no view gave me the leg color I was looking for. I do suspect a young bird. I had one last year that wasn't quite as pale, but showed some of the same characteristics. I certainly don't see THAT color very often.