FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Shorebirds at Eagle Bend fish hatchery Clinton, TN- Dowitcher

["Allan Trently" <ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I birded TWRAs Eagle Bend fish hatchery in Anderson County, Clinton, 
Tennessee on August 7, 2006.  The following is a list of shorebirds 
observed:

1. Killdeer- 31
2. Least sandpiper- 6
3. Solitary sandpiper- 2
4. Spotted sandpiper- 2
5. Pectoral sandpiper- 2
6. Short-billed dowitcher juvenile- 1 (My identifications was based on the 
following: 1. Width of black and white tail banding even, 2. Buff colored 
breast with some buff (faded) to vent, 3. scapulars with black centers and 
orange-buff margins, 4. coverts with gray to black centers and with white to 
buff margins, 5. resembles photo 82.13, page 314 in Shorebirds of North 
America by Dennis Paulson).


Allan Trently
Norris, TN
ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx

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