Slender shorebird with broad breast, short legs, and very gently drooping, black bill. Stands with a horizontal posture and wingtips extend beyond the tail.
Medium-sized sandpiper with a broad breast, short legs, and ever so slightly drooping bill. Long wings extend past end of tail. Juveniles have a buffy breast and scaly upperparts.
Forages for invertebrates both at the water's edge and away from it, in grassy marshes and wet fields.
In flight, note the long wings and weak whitish wing stripe. Also note there is a dark stripe from the lower back to the center of the tail.
Graceful, somewhat short-legged shorebird with a horizontal posture. Juveniles are scaly above with a buffy breast. Wingtips extend beyond the tail.
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A small shorebird with very long wings. The wingtips extend well past the tail tip. The legs are rather long and bill is fairly long for its size.
Larger than a Semipalmated Sandpiper, smaller than a Dunlin.
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