<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The Western is larger, cleaner white below, with a prominent white eye brow, with a longer heavier slightly decurved bill, and dark blackish legs. The browner, dumpier smaller Least has dull yellow-greenish legs, a shorter bill, and lacks the prominent white eye brow line of the juvenile Western Sandpiper.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 7, 2022, at 3:55 PM, Jay E <<a href="mailto:jaybham52@gmail.com" class="">jaybham52@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I continue to be challenged with shorebird ID among birds with similar shapes and sizes. Anyway, I took this at Fir Island Hayton Reserve on September 3. This group of shorebirds was flying as a group of about 20-30 and landed at the water's edge. I believe there are two different birds here due to plumage and leg color differences, and I think the one one the right is a Least sandpiper. I'm happy to be corrected. If you can help me differentiate the two, let me know what are the distinctions I should be noting. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/rippleman/1A8bk07oTs" class="">https://www.flickr.com/gp/rippleman/1A8bk07oTs</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks - Jay Eisenberg</div><div class="">Bellingham, WA<br class=""></div></div>
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