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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: November 3, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Red Knot, Calidris canutus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Red Knot, Calidris canutus, photographed at Quintana, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 30 September 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
The rare rusty-butted sneetch. Field mark? rusty butt!
Posted by: The Ridger | November 3, 2009 1:52 PM
A sandpiper. All of those little mottled wading things are sandpipers, right?
Posted by: noel | November 3, 2009 2:45 PM
I've always thought that there should be a field guide of bird's butts.
Posted by: Hispid | November 3, 2009 5:34 PM
Having worked on various horseshoe crab projects in the Delaware Bay, I am familiar with this bird as it stops off en route from Argentina to fatten up on crab eggs...
Red Knot, Calidris canutus: dark legs, dark bill; breeding plumage is mottled grey on top ("scaley") with reddish face, throat and breast (not visible above) and light-coloured rear belly
Red Knot ID (including molting sequence)
Posted by: David | November 3, 2009 6:17 PM