Medium-sized sandpiper with long greenish legs and a long, slightly curved bill. During the breeding season, underparts are heavily barred, the back has dark blotches, and the cheeks are chestnut.
Nonbreeding Stilt Sandpipers are grayer overall than breeding birds. Note prominent white eyebrow, long yellow legs, and dark slightly drooping bill.
Breeds in sedge marshes of the arctic tundra. On migration and in winter found along mudflats, flooded fields, shallow ponds and pools, and marshes.
Juveniles have long yellow-green legs and a scaly look to their backs. The underparts are whitish with brownish streaking on the chest. Often wades in water up to its belly.
In flight, their long legs trail behind and their white rump patch is visible.
Long-legged shorebird with a long slightly drooping bill. Breeding birds have heavily barred underparts.
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A medium-sized shorebird with a plump belly but elegant appearance because of its long legs, long, rather slim neck, and long, slightly decurved bill. In flight, note the long narrow wings and feet projecting well past the tail tip.
Larger than a Sanderling, smaller than a Lesser Yellowlegs; similar in size to a Dunlin or Pectoral Sandpiper, but more elegant, with longer legs.
robin-sizedSandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)
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