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8 1/2" (22 cm) A small dark sandpiper with dark olive legs, speckled upperparts, white tail barred with black, and prominent eye ring. Flight is swallow-like. No white wing stripe, as seen in Spotted Sandpiper. Habitat Ponds, bogs, wet swampy places, and woodland streams. Nesting 4 pale green or buff eggs, thickly spotted with gray and brown, in deserted tree nests of thrushes, jays, or blackbirds. Range Breeds in Alaska and across Canada to Labrador, south to northeastern |
| Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria |
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| PHOTO BY: GEORGE W. BOWLES, SR. 2004 |
