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Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
dk: Plettet Mudderklire es: Playero Alzacolita
Hide text (added 2020-10-17) Adult prebasic molt happens on the winter ground, juveniles molt progressively during migration and continue on the winter ground. By April they replace the last juvenile feathers, the two outer primaries. By late autumn birds are difficult to age by normal field observation.
	360 (1 photos) 2008-12-05 Presa El Cedazo, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes (Agu), Mexico Adult in basic plumage still with few traces of the breeding plumage along the rear flank. Regular winter guest in Aguascalientes.
	361 (1 photos) 2009-03-14 Presa El Cedazo, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes (Agu), Mexico Beginning breeding plumage.
	362 (1 photos) 2009-04-27 Isla de Cozumel, Quintana Roo (Roo), Mexico Alternate plumage.
	336 (1 photos) 2010-07-25 Presa La Colorada, El Llano, Aguascalientes (Agu), Mexico Adult in alternate plumage. One of the shorebird species returning earliest from the north.
	1852 (1 photos) 2015-09-05 Laguna Atotonilco, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico Adult in transition to basic plumage.
	2298 (3 photos) 2016-05-14 Presa La Vega, west of Gdl, Jalisco (Jal), Mexico Likely young bird with beginning adult alternate plumage. The late date could indeed indicate that the bird is young and has decided not to move north this year.
	2789 (17 photos) 2018-10-14 Peninsula Campos - Manzanillo, Colima (Col), Mexico 2+cy bird first of all by the remaining black spots on the vent. The extremely, and very misleading, short tail projection is because of still growing rectrices, especially the central pair.
	3436 (2 photos) 2020-01-05 Mazatlán, Sinaloa (Sin), Mexico Basic plumage. A bird with pale bill and legs and faint inner white wing bar, like here, would hopefully raise an eyebrow if seen in Europe...