Short-billed Dowitcher - Kiowa County, CO - October 2014
Photographed at Nee So Pah Reservoir on 3 October. First found by voice as it flushed out of a narrow waterway. Note how the tertials are not truly tiger-striped, but rather the internal markings have wavy edges. See Paulson's excellent shorebird book for variation in tertial markings of both dowitchers. Notes the very broad and bright scapular edges, the short (for a dowitcher) tapered bill, very prominent supercilium
Short-billed Dowitcher - Kiowa County, CO - October 2014
Photographed at Nee So Pah Reservoir on 3 October. First found by voice as it flushed out of a narrow waterway. Note how the tertials are not truly tiger-striped, but rather the internal markings have wavy edges. See Paulson's excellent shorebird book for variation in tertial markings of both dowitchers. Notes the very broad and bright scapular edges, the short (for a dowitcher) tapered bill, very prominent supercilium