Shorebird Identification Aid

East Kootenay Shorebird ID Guide by shape and size

Threw this together today for the field trip I am leading tomorrow.  It is the Rocky Mountain Naturalists annual "Shorebird" field trip.  We always do it the second week of August, hoping to get a good mix.  However, the shorebirds seemed to have started trickling in a bit earlier this year.  We never get many and love to spend hours studying them.

These are the species most common to the East Kootenay in August.  Feel free to download.  Perhaps you find a better quality photo on Flickr at https://flic.kr/p/MSaNo1

It is still a draft, really.  My intention is to go through O'Brien and tabulate id tips.  The sizes are relative and done mostly by eyeball but the ruler over the Greater Yellowlegs is to show that I am somewhat acurate in my photoshopping.

Thanks!  Enjoy!