SHORE-BIRDS 



Large (14-25 inches). LENGTH 



A. Bill curved and long. 



a. Bill up-curved; head and neck light cinnamon, other- 

 wise white below; wings black and white. 



225. AVOCET 18 



b. Bill slightly up-curved; pale cinnamon. 



249. MARBLED GODWIT 17 



c. Bill down-curved. 



1. Wholly light cinnamon-brown. 



264. LONG-BILLED CURLEW 20-25 



2. Head striped; (darker body than No. 264). 



265. HUDSONIAN CURLEW 16-18 



B. Bill straight. 



a. Black above; white below; bill long, slender; legs red. 



226. BLACK-NECKED STILT 15 



b. Mostly gray in plumage. 



1. Bill long, slender; tail mostly white. 



254. GREATER YELLOW-LEGS 14 



2. Bill long, thick; open wings black and white. 



258a. WESTERN WILLET 15 



c. Wholly black; large bill. 



287. BLACK OYSTER-CATCHER 17 



Medium size (around 10-2 inches). 



A. Mostly brown or cinnamon. 



a. Bill long and straight. 



1. Back striped; dusky crown stripes; secretive. 



230. WILSON SNIPE 11 



2. Rump and tail-coverts white; feeds in open. 



232. LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 11 



B. Appears blackish at distance. Resembles Spotted Sand- 

 piper in attitude and shape. 



259. WANDERING TATTLER 11 



C. Mostly gray; wings black below (winter). 



270. BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER 11 



D. Black collar and chest-band. 



273. KILLDEER 10| 



Small (Phalaropes, Plovers, Sanderling, Sandpipers, Turn- 

 stones). 



