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Small. Sexes alike. Adults: Breeding: Face, throat, upper breast pale rufous or rufous brown with fine brown streaking. Throat, whitish. Lores, eyestripe, blackish. Crown, hind neck, back, scapulars, dark brown mottled with rufous and buff. Eye, dark brown. Eyebrow, inconspicuous. Center of rump, uppertail coverts, dark brown. Sides of rump, belly, undertail coverts, underwing, white. Central tail feather dark brown, outer tail feathers grey. Wing, greyish-brown, greater and primary coverts tipped white forming a white wing bar. Feathers at base of bill white. Bill, black. Legs, black. Non-breeding: Tends to be browner above, with more prominent brown centers to feathers. Breast may have a band of fine streaks. Immatures: Crown is more rufous and contrasts more with white eyebrow. Scapulars have buff or white edges forming whitish lines down the back. Tertials have more extensive rufous edges.

Vagrant to Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong (China), Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, Thailand, USA (NB), Vietnam.

© 2004 Birdpedia (Last update: 31/01/2006)		Breeds in Arctic Eurasia, migrating to Japan, Brunei and Papua New Guinea. Vagrant to Australia.

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