SOUTHEASTERN CARIBBEAN BIRDS PHOTO GALLERY

Trinidad and Tobago Field Naturalists' Club         Southeastern Caribbean Bird Alert         Trinidad and Tobago Rare Bird Committee

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)

Immature with injured leg at Speyside, Tobago, 16 October 2000. Photo © by Floyd Hayes. This bird was found by Martyn Kenefick, Floyd Hayes, Bryan Sanasie, Brett Hayes and Newton George. Note the pale legs (right was injured), dark bill, lack of a superciliary and buffy colouration distinctive of this species; the bill is shorter than that of a Ruff (Philomachus pugnax). The pale margins of the fresh wing feathers indicate that this is an immature. Although there are numerous sight records for T&T, this represents the first documented record. The same observers found seven on 15 October 2000 at Crown Point, Tobago.