Buff-breasted sandpiper
Tryngites subruficollis
Identification Tips:
- Medium-sized shorebird
- Short, straight dark bill
- Yellow legs
- Buff plumage
- Mantle has black-centered feathers
- Small black spots on side of breast
- White underwings
- Sexes similar
- Juvenile similar to adult but back feathers edged in white
Similar species:
The unmarked buff underparts of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper separate it
from other brown shorebirds with streaked or spotted underparts: Baird's
Sandpiper, juvenile Ruff, Pectoral Sandpiper, and Upland Sandpiper. In
flight, the white wing linings are diagnostic.