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<blockquote data-quote="Stoshowicz" data-source="post: 557612" data-attributes="member: 31397">Merlin is going to have a hard time distinguishing all the Calidris from Tringa, I still do too on some , but this is a Least sandpiper. FYI ...A thing which I havent seen mentioned differentiating these two genera ,, Tringa , which has Solitary sandpiper, Yellowlegs ,and so forth,,usually has whitish dots along the tertials ,(it looks kind of like a steak knife to me...) ...which the Calidris sandpipers dont have .&nbsp; &nbsp; ( initially its hard to tell which are the primaries , vs the tertails , vs the tail feathers all bunched together at the back of the bird , such as they are here, but you can see the long axis of the primaries here extending as the lower wing border ,,with the tertials extending to cover them ,, all meeting at the tail tip which has white outer edges and is &quot;horizontal &quot;The Tertials , in flight , really dont look they should make it to the tail tip ,, but somehow they do - when the wing is folded up.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stoshowicz, post: 557612, member: 31397"] Merlin is going to have a hard time distinguishing all the Calidris from Tringa, I still do too on some , but this is a Least sandpiper. FYI ... A thing which I havent seen mentioned differentiating these two genera ,, Tringa , which has Solitary sandpiper, Yellowlegs ,and so forth,,usually has whitish dots along the tertials ,(it looks kind of like a steak knife to me...) ...which the Calidris sandpipers dont have . [I] [COLOR=#800080]( initially its hard to tell which are the primaries , vs the tertails , vs the tail feathers all bunched together at the back of the bird , such as they are here, but you can see the long axis of the primaries here extending as the lower wing border ,,with the tertials extending to cover them ,, all meeting at the tail tip which has white outer edges and is "horizontal " [/COLOR][/I]The Tertials , in flight , really dont look they should make it to the tail tip ,, but somehow they do - when the wing is folded up. [/QUOTE]

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