Harry Nehls and I were standing on the Shorebird flats at the South Jetty of
the Columbia River watching pipits fly over (we had had a report of Red-throated
a few days earlier) and got to talking about pink-legged American Pipits.
Can they be safely identified as _japonicus_ type or could they be juveniles
of expected American types? How often do folks see _japonicus_?
I know I see pink-legged birds with far more frequency than "rare in Western
Alaska" might suggest.


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