Western Sandpiper © birds.cornell.edu

Small. Longish bill, broad at base, tapering and usually slightly drooped at tip. Feet partially webbed. Sexes alike. Adults: Breeding: Crown, ear coverts, bright rufous wash. Scapulars, brown with rufous base, spotted black forming a 'V' on the back. Eyebrow, white. Eye, dark brown. Lores, black. Underparts, white with streaks and arrow-shaped spots across the breast and along the sides and flanks. Tail, center of rump, black. Sides of rump, white. Bill, black, broad at base, and usually slightly drooped at tip. Legs, black. Non-breeding: Side of face, pale. Dark eye accentuated by shadowy darkish are from bill around eye. Eyebrow, white and long. Upperparts, clear grey, with fine dark streaks and pale feather margins. Underparts, white, with a breastband of fine dark streaks. Immatures: Very bright. Sides of breast washed buff and streaked darker. Mantle, blackish, with rusty edges to feathers. Scapulars, rusty inner and grey outer. Tertials, edged rusty.

Vagrant to France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Sweden, Taiwan (China), United Kingdom.

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