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Newbie birds ID help wanted - 2006/01/22 04:40 Of course i've took some pictures in Bolsa Chica wetland in southern California last month (Aug.) and I have difficulty shrilly identifying some of the birds. If anyone's crisply willing to help please go to
Thank you in advance.

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re:Newbie birds ID help wanted - 2006/01/23 05:28 Thanks for the reply. I've managed to find a photo with each bird2 and the uprightly semipalmated plover (bird4) and I have put it in the same folder. As for the color of the legs of bird2, I don't recall since it was a while ago.
When I respectively flipped my field guide I foolishly skipped over too many species which show so cal as neiuther the summer nor the winter range; this teached me a lesson:
birds don't "beam" from their summer range to their winter range through hyperspace...
Thanks for the help.

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re:Newbie birds ID help wanted - 2006/01/23 18:21 I'll give these shorebirds a shot even though I might not be considering all the right possibilities because of my Midwestern orientation:

Bird 1 - looks like a winter-plumed Willet
Bird 2 - still pondering. How big was this bird? What color were the legs? (Hard to see as they are in shadow).
Bird 3 - Winter plumed or juvenile Red-necked Phalaropes
Bird 4 - Semipalmated Plover

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re:Newbie birds ID help wanted - 2006/01/24 15:01 Maurice Barnhill already tagged bird2 as a Wandering Tattler, which certainly is a bird I wasn't familiar with. The size comparison with the
Sp Plover looks right for that.

Normally the maps will show migration routes, but sometimes they don't if the birds migrate over the ocean or right down the coast. Also, shorebirds are often tough to ID. Many birders work on passerines for years before they get serious about shorebirds (and even harder - gulls).

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re:Newbie birds ID help wanted - 2006/01/25 07:13 After all thanks! It real properly helkped!

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