Subject: [Hong Kong] Redshanks? Please help me ID [Print This Page]

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Author: QWERTYALEX    Time: 9/08/2013 21:57     Subject: Redshanks? Please help me ID

Tsim Bei Tsui.
I think they are redshanks, if so how do I tell the common and spotted apart?

Thanks

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Author: John Holmes    Time: 12/08/2013 19:19     Subject: Redshanks

These are juvenile Common Redshanks.....  Spotted Redshank has a thinner bill and the inflight wing pattern is different

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Author: QWERTYALEX    Time: 12/08/2013 20:19

John,

Thanks a lot, 185 viewed without an ID!
I was thinking no one could help!
Thanks for the tips in telling them apart too!

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