ML643389623

Observation details

Cellphone photos (will be uploaded soon) and video. Since we were working in the wetland, we were quite close and the bird ended up approaching us and was less than 10 feet away. Wing tips extending past the end of the tail. Dark legs, supersillium distinguishable, dark bill slightly down-curved, streaking not heavy but visible and ending semi abruptly above the belly (not as abruptly or low on the breast as a Pectoral). Distinguished from semipalm by wingtip length and breast streaking, from Western by body shape, bill and habits, from white-rumped because we saw if fly briefly and lacked white rump. We also recorded the birds call , which when we listened to my friend's reference on his phone matched perfectly. Merlin did not recognize it even when we played our clear recording directly into the app. The bird did not shy from entering the water like least sands usually do and waded up to belly deep, but not higher.