FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Common Greenshanks?- Eagle Bend

["Allan Trently" <ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While at Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery today (July 14), I had a bird that was 
questionable in identification.  After looking at the photographs in 
Shorebirds of North America by Dennis Paulson, I decided the bird best 
looked like a Common Greenshanks, juvenile plumage (Page 104, plate 28.5).

Here is what I saw:

-larger than a killdeer
-the bird bobbed like a yellowlegs
-the bill was not upturned
-black loral stripe
-white supercilium at least in front of the eye, but may have extended 
beyond eye
-vertical black bars in the tertials
-belly white
-as it was standing, I saw that the white on the tail went up to the lower 
back (it possibly went farther)
-greenish leg color
-I did not see any rufous coloration on the bird
-base of the bill was wide, but I did not note its color (the bill may have 
been all black)

Other birds

dowitcher species
least sandpiper
killdeer
greater yellowlegs
great egrets- 3
lesser yellowlegs
western sandpiper- 2
spotted sandpiper
solitary sandpiper
white ibis- 2 immatures


Allan Trently
Norris, TN
ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx

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