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Texas Bird Family
Texas, USA
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Some sort of sandpiper, gray with black wingtips, pale yellow legs, and white belly.
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Texas Bird Family
Texas, USA
Some sort of sandpiper, gray with black wingtips, pale yellow legs, and white belly.
Maybe plover?
Plovers don’t live in Texas at this time of year. It was most likely either a Spotted Sandpiper or a Solitary Sandpiper.
No, it wasn’t a Spotted or Solitary Sandpiper. Its beak was longer and it was gray, not brown.
eBird says that I have Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers here.
Yeah, sorry, you’re right.
It isn’t any of them though, their beaks are too small.
Could it have been a Willet?
Maybe.
We just visited today and they are non-breeding Greater Yellowlegs