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[paulkienitz]

See if you can count how many different species are all hanging out together in this little group.

big-ass picture here: http://paulkienitz.n...ess species.jpg

The dark red guy in the middle intrigues me.

[Pat B.]

Isn't the red one in the middle a Cinnamon Teal? American Avocet headless on the right.

[creeker]

Dark red guy is a Cinnamon Teal.

[paulkienitz]

I think the spotty one in the upper right is a shoveler. There's a definite shoveler in a later shot I took of the same group.

I'm more wondering about the sleepy sandpipers. Looks like many kinds. What's the one with the pink bill? (Center of left-hand clump.)

[fisherman1313]

Looks to me like American Avocet, dowitcher sp., Northern Shoveler, Cinnamon Teal, Willet and Marbled Godwit.

[creeker]

I think the spotty one in the upper right is a shoveler. There's a definite shoveler in a later shot I took of the same group.

I'm more wondering about the sleepy sandpipers. Looks like many kinds. What's the one with the pink bill? (Center of left-hand clump.)

That would be the Marbled Godwit that fisherman mentioned. The bill should have a dark tip, I think somehow obscured in this view.

[psweet]

I think there's a male Green-winged Teal right in the middle.

[JimBob]

I think there's a male Green-winged Teal right in the middle.

Agree.

[fisherman1313]

I think there's a male Green-winged Teal right in the middle.

I thought that was another Cinnamon that's partly obscured by a dowitcher.

[psweet]

You can see that the back is that funny off-gray that Green-wings have, and the start of the shoulder stripe is just visible.

[JimBob]

One of the dowitchers has its bill out, and it's pretty long... Might be a Long-billed.

[blackburnian]

so how many species do you think are in there?

[Gordo]

so how many species do you think are in there?

seven?

[fisherman1313]

You can see that the back is that funny off-gray that Green-wings have, and the start of the shoulder stripe is just visible.

I see it now.