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Author: cwho    Time: 15/04/2012 23:46     Subject: How many kinds in photo?

2012/4/9
MP
I can find 6 kind of shore-birds in this photo, am I right?
1.Common Greenshank
2.Common Redshank
3.Marsh Sandpiper
4.Terek Sandpiper
5.Curlew Sandpiper
6.Ruff
How many can you find?


[ Last edited by cwho at 15/04/2012 23:59 ]
Author: gary    Time: 16/04/2012 13:15

I don't see any Ruff in the photo, but agree there are six species included.
Author: lpaul    Time: 16/04/2012 17:16

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (centre left) perhaps that is the Ruff?
Author: tmichael    Time: 16/04/2012 19:35

The apparently scallop-backed bird left of centre is clearly the putative Ruff, I think.

Seems to me from this quality of image there's just enough about the head to suspect it probably is 'just' a Sharp-tailed.

Do we get a 'solution'/better quality image of the mystery bird?

Also why isn't the bird in front of it, with its backside in the air, a Wrybill?

Mike Turnbull
Author: cwho    Time: 17/04/2012 01:05

Thanks Gary ,Ipaul & Mike. I do hope that is a Ruff, but I'm wrong. I agreed that it is a Sharp-tailed. Try hard to find a real Ruff next time! Ha Ha!




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