Small shorebird with long legs, a slender neck, and a very thin, straight, bill. Breeding females are more brightly colored than males with a dark stripe down the neck, a blue-gray back, and a peachy neck.
Slender shorebird with a thin bill. Males are often duller than females, lacking the black neck stripe.
Classic foraging behavior is to swim in tight circles, creating a vortex that brings prey items up toward the surface.
Juveniles have a dark cap and scaly-looking backs that vary in color from grayish to rusty.
In flight, note white rump, grayish tail, and plain grayish wings.
Slender shorebird with a long, thin bill. Juveniles have a dark cap and a scaly-looking back that varies from grayish to rusty. Sits high in the water.
Juveniles and nonbreeding adults have yellow legs. When foraging on land moves quickly and frantically.
Larger than "peep" sandpipers (like Semipalmated, at right). Juveniles and nonbreeding adults have yellow legs. Juveniles have a dark cap and white neck and belly.
When foraging on land moves quickly, often in a crouched position.
Note white neck and belly, thin bill, and slender-bodied look.
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Wilson’s Phalaropes are small shorebirds with long legs, slender necks, and very thin, straight, long bills. They have sharply pointed wings.
Larger than a Least Sandpiper; smaller than a Killdeer.
robin-sizedSandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)
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