White-rumped Sandpiper in flight

Posted by Ivan Sjögren on Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:35 pm

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White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)

A White-rumped Sandpiper in flight from Brazil taken in the end of last year.

Canon 70D | 400mm f/5.6 | 1/1000s | f/75.6

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by WOlf38 on Sat Jan 30, 2016 2:00 pm

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Nice wingpose and flight shot!

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by tcots55 on Sat Jan 30, 2016 5:48 pm

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Nice flight shot of this species.

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by tinyfishy on Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:36 am

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Pardon me, but how do you know that this is a White-rumped Sandpiper when the rump of the bird as seen above is clearly not white ? None-the-less it's a great flight shot of this little guy.

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by Ivan Sjögren on Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:40 am

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tinyfishy wrote:Pardon me, but how do you know that this is a White-rumped Sandpiper when the rump of the bird as seen above is clearly not white ? None-the-less it's a great flight shot of this little guy.

Thank you for the comment! I'm quite sure about the ID. It is the birds tertails that is covering the white rump and therefor it appears to have streaking. Also no other calidris have such heavy streaking along the sides during their nonbreeding plumage. Another characteristics is the rather long bill and the prominent eyebrow.

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by tinyfishy on Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:56 am

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Hi Ivan
It's kinda hard to tell from the eyebrow and beak, but from the streaking on the side I'll give it to you. Too bad when it comes to smaller birds in-flight many times we don't have too many shots to pick from.

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by Gene Gwin on Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:21 pm

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Ivan, Nice inflight shot of this White-rumped Sandpiper.

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by Mike Danzenbaker on Wed Feb 03, 2016 6:07 pm

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Very nice example of a flight shot of a small Calidrid, generally difficult to get. I agree with you on your ID, due mainly to the flank streaking. It's also possible that for the location, no other peeps might be possible except probably Baird's. The fact that the white upper-tail coverts aren't clearly visible (and also that we can't hear its distinctive mouse-like call) makes this a good ID quiz photo.

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