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| Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae) | |
| Langnæbbet Sneppeklire ~ Costurero Pico Largo ~ Större Beckasinsnäppa | |
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2008-10-17 Parque México (Aguascalientes), Mexico Basic plumage. Notoriously difficult to separate from Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) though this is normally only seen along the coasts of Mexico, thus 'should not' be seen here in Ags. Indications that these are LD are the general dark gray color and the black tail bands that are broader than the white ones. |
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2008-12-05 Parque el Cedazo (Aguascalientes), Mexico Basic plumage. The tail pattern indicating LD, which was confirmed when the bird called: keek. |
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2008-12-05 Parque el Cedazo (Aguascalientes), Mexico Basic plumage. |
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2009-08-14 Presa La Colorada (agu), Mexico Alternate and beginning basic plumage. The dark back and the completely red belly are indications of LD. |
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2013-03-25 Las Hadas Golf Course (Manzanillo), Mexico Basic to beginning alternate. Single bird at fresh water pond only 300 meters from the ocean. Round back, barred flanks and blunt white tipped new coverts indicate this species. |
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2015-09-05 Laguna Atotonilco (jal), Mexico All birds still with reddish underparts show evidence of this reaching to below the tail, which is also a good indication of this species. |
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2015-09-05 Laguna Atotonilco (jal), Mexico Adult birds in transition to basic. The dark and curved backs with apex near the center are good indications of this species. The flock , about 100 birds, were foraging the same way, and some birds heard too. A large flock at an inland locality, despite warnings about using locality as a mean to id dowitchers, still useful to support the identification of these birds as Long-billed. |
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5321
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(1 videos)
Same bird: 136
2023-09-24 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark First calendar year. Midtertårnet. Afternoon. Discovered yesterday by Anders Odd Wulff Nielsen. Present today and most likely gone during the night. This, because it was only reported by Thyge Enevoldsen the following day - among many birders. But he only saw it briefly behind the island in front of the tower. It didn't sound too convincing when he described the observation to me, and the fact that he hasn't added the record to dofbasen support my feeling. I saw the bird in the morning from the north tower and much closer. Here it was easier to see the buffy uniformly neat plumage of a young bird and it was obvious that the tertials were plain colored without the tiger streaks of SBDO. It was also obvious that the bird did not show the rounded back that I have been focusing on as a species character for LBDO. This of course only confirms with certainty that LBDO can show both back profiles - rounded and straight line, and not that SBDO can show a rounded back too. Most dowitchers that show up in Europe are in fact Long-billed. In N America they both migrate the same distance south through the continent why I would have expected an equal amount of SBDO showing up too. If not for the fact that LBDO also breeds in E Siberia and my guess is that the birds that come here follow many of the other arctic waders of the Siberian area and thus are coming from the east rather than the west. A new DK species for me. Rare |
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Same bird: 136
2023-10-04 Kalvebod Fælled, Denmark First calendar year. Midtertårnet. Afternoon. Disappeared and came back a few days. Poorer views today with strong wind, why less details were seen, but I expect it to be the same as 5321. And maybe it is just my Danish Kæphest in English that insists on focusing on the back shape. From this selection of postures I get the feeling that the back is indeed more often curved with the apex near the middle of the back compared to the straighter line with the apex near the neck on Short-billed. Not as obvious as it can bee seen, I admit, but still enough to raise a suspicion of it being a long-billed. Rare |