Bird genealogy >> Order Charadriiformes >> Family Scolopacidae
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Location

Las Dehesas Channel, Extremadura
Spain

Metadata

Make Canon EOS 7D
Lens Canon EF 100-400 mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM   at 640 mm
Exposure 1/1000, f/6.3, ISO 400 
Image size 800 x 533 pixels

IOC Names

Deutsch  Flussuferläufer Dutch  Oeverloper
Italian  Piro piro piccolo Spanish  Andarríos Chico

Comments

Note the white gap separating the breast and carpal area and, in flight, the bursts of wingbeats alternating with a glide on down-bowed wings.




 

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    01/10/2013

Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Chevalier guignette

Jean-Michel PAULUS