Medium-sized slender shorebird with a prominent eyering. Small white spots mark the back.
Medium-sized shorebird with a prominent white eyering. Nonbreeding birds look similar to breeding birds, but have smaller spots on the back.
Forages along edges of shallow wetlands, muddy fields, and small ponds. Note neat spots on back and strong white eyering.
In flight note dark stripe down the center of the tail and barred outer tail feathers. Also note dark underwings (not visible in photo).
Generally found alone or in small numbers on freshwater ponds and flooded fields. Note prominent eyering and white spotting on back.
Nods head while walking. Note complete white eyering.
When lands often holds its wings straight up before slowly bringing them back down.
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A small, slender shorebird with a somewhat long neck and long bill. It has fairly long wings and legs.
Slightly larger than a Spotted Sandpiper, smaller than a Lesser Yellowlegs.
robin-sizedSolitary Sandpiper has two subspecies, solitaria, which breeds and migrates east of the Rocky Mountains, and cinnamomea, which breeds and migrates west of the Rockies. They are best identified in fresh plumage by tail pattern, loral pattern, and colors of their upperparts. Cinnamomea is larger, with narrow white bars on the tail; solitaria has broad bars. The two subspecies winter in different parts of Central and South America.
Sandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)
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