Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Lake Merdeduke,Vic IMG_5188 20170122 - Red-necked Stint & Curlew Sandpiper on left.

Notes: Plover-like sandpiper. Buff-brown upperparts, bright yellow legs. Blank-faced appearance
accentuated by diffuse white eye-ring and lack of dark loral stripe. Vagrant from Americas.
Close to estuaries, lagoons. Resting in short samphire.

Range from Morcombe^©

Lake Merdeduke, C Vic IMG_5149 20170122 - Red-necked Stint on left.

Lake Merdeduke, C Vic IMG_5144 20170122

Lake Merdeduke, C Vic IMG_5148 20170122

Lake Merdeduke, C Vic IMG_5139 20170122

Lake Merdeduke, C Vic IMG_5135 20170122 - m3 Red-necked Stint.

Lake Merdeduke,Vic MVI_5180 20170122