Morro
Bay Estuary's Extraordinary
Birds
Photographed from Orchid Outriggers
Long-billed Dowitcher or maybe
Short-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopacens
Limnodromus griseus
It seems the Dowitchers are best
distinguished by flight call and breeding plumage. The two types are
almost identical in size, with much overlap in bill length and very
similar non-breeding plumage, which we see here. Short-billed
or Long-billed? Hard for me to tell.
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