As a rank amateur, just looking at pictures in books, and not considering such
things as geography or habitat, I'd say the bird looks like a Rock Sandpiper
(however, the observer said the bird was bigger than a Pectoral, and a Rock
would be slightly smaller, no?).


== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland WA
== MJCT_Hobbs at msn.com


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From: TWEETERS-owner at u.washington.edu on behalf of Dennis Paulson
Subject: identify this bird

Hi tweeters,

It's fall, and shorebirds are beginning to outnumber dragonflies (or at
least so all birders hope) and impinge on my consciousness again. Here's
another identification question for those of you with WWW access:

http://www.ups.edu/biology/museum/birddrawing1.html

Have fun!