Week Seven - Shorebirds and Gulls Flashcards
Black-necked Stilt - Recurvirostridae
White belly, black back. Slender.
Unmistakeable, extraordinarily long red legs.
Semipalmated Plover - Charadriidae
Plump, with a short neck and a round head.
Single dark band on the breast, with an orange-and-black bill.
Brown above and white below.
Killdeer- Charadriiformes
A tall and slender plover with an unusually long tail.
Distinctive dark double breastband. Pinkish legs.
A high pitched, incredibly loud and whinnying “killl-deer” call.
Upland Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Thin neck, small head, and long tail.
Yellow bill and overall a buffy-brown pattern.
Call sounds like a soft trill that ends with a loud whistle that rises and falls.
Ruddy Turnstone - Scolopacidae
Short orange legs and calico plumage.
Likes to flip over rocks!
Rufous-and-black wings.
Dunlin - Scolopacidae
Black patch on belly, with a long and drooping black bill.
Short legs and a speckled back.
Least Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Greenish-yellow legs, with relatively brown plumage. Short, fine-tipped bill.
Pectoral Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Greenish legs, overall brown color, and dense breast streaking that tends to end abruptly at the white belly.
Tends to be larger than other sandpipers, which is distinctive.
Semipalmated Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Has a short, blunt-tipped bill. Dark legs, Tends to have a “plainer” brown plumage.
Paler and greyer brown than Least Sandpiper.
Short-billed Dowitcher - Scolopacidae
Mostly rufous belly, spotted.
Stock, long-billed, and short-necked.
Long-billed Dowitcher - Scolopacidae
Rufous neck streaked dark and an entirely rufous belly.
Dark, barred flanks unlike other sandpipers.
Wilson’s Snipe - Scolopacidae
Bold bars on it’s white flanks.
Striped head and back.
A series of hooting noises, which actually are produced from the outer tail feathers.
American Woodcock - Scolopacidae
Gray above with darker stripes along back and a pale-orange belly.
Dark markings on head, but not like the stripes of the Snipe.
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Spotted Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Spotted underparts in the summer.
Brown above, white below, with yellow legs and bill.
Sounds like a 2 or 3 note whistled call.
Solitary Sandpiper - Scolopacidae
Smaller than LEYE, with greener legs.
Gray above and white below, with a fine white speckling of the wings.
Has a white eyering.
Has a high pitched “peet-weet” or “peet-weet-weet” which is more shrill than Spotted.