Subject: Request for wader ID, Norway
Date: Oct 30 16:00:22 1999
From: Mike Patterson - mpatters at oregonvos.net


I suspect this is a Red-necked Stint.

It is not a Western or Semipalmated. The bill is narrow at
the base and tapers to a point. Both Western and Semi have
deep bill bases and bunt or blobby bill tips. Note the the
solid centers to the feathers of the back in the clearest
(2nd) picture. In Westerns, these feathers would have black
only at the lower end and the coverts would be grayer.
It also seems small compared to the Temminck's; Western
would be the same size or larger (Semi, too, I think).

I lean toward Red-necked, because the head is boxy. Little
Stint is round, round, round. That and the presumed
commoness of Little Stint in Norway....

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