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Topic Categories: Birds • Education • Image of the Day • Ornithology
Posted on: July 18, 2008 2:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: peeps, shorebirds, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Identify these peeps -- photographed at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 4 June 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
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Comments
Ooo! Ooo! Are they... Semipalmated Sandpipers?
Posted by: NPD | July 18, 2008 3:44 PM
Two semis up front, two Western in the back?
Posted by: Nick | July 18, 2008 4:00 PM
I stand corrected, sir. Should have looked more closely at the birdies in the back.
Posted by: NPD | July 18, 2008 5:12 PM
Agree with Nick!
Posted by: Patrick | July 18, 2008 6:02 PM
I agree with Nick, except that I would leave the back left unidentified since it's not in focus and part of the bill is missing.
Posted by: John | July 18, 2008 6:12 PM
I agree with Nick, except that I would leave the back left unidentified since it's not in focus and part of the bill is missing.
Yeah, but the back left bird still has too much rufous on the shoulder and crown to be a semi-palmated SP.
Front two are semi-palmateds, rear two are westerns.
Posted by: Albatrossity | July 18, 2008 7:57 PM
I believe you'll find that it is the elusive purple-breasted birthday bird. In molt.
I feel good that I thought "sandpipers," though.
HJ
Posted by: bing | July 18, 2008 10:13 PM
The one back left is an ostrich pretending to be an out of focus Western Sandpiper.
So, what prize have I won?
Posted by: Bob O'H | July 19, 2008 12:35 PM
Looks like Goshawks to me.
Posted by: Drew Wheelan | July 20, 2008 12:39 PM
Thems burds.
Posted by: Ian | July 21, 2008 8:57 AM
Now teh flurry of IDs has died down, I have to say it seems you gave it away by posting a picture slightly earlier in which you identified these very birds as "Western and Semipalmated Sandpipers". Didn't you?
Posted by: Ian | July 22, 2008 7:40 AM