Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, and Common Snipe
Pin-tailed Snipe, Swinhoe's Snipe, and Common Snipe are all staying in the paddies of Ishigaki Island. Spring snipe identification gets harder than autumn — which is actually quite enjoyable. ^^
Pin-tailed Snipe spotted on a distant paddy bank. The backlight makes observation tough… ^^;
Another Pin-tailed Snipe. Looks very similar to the individual above.
Also a Pin-tailed Snipe. Compared to the individual above, this one tends darker.
Common Snipe (left) and Pin-tailed Snipe. The Pin-tailed Snipe is the same individual as the one at the top.
Another Pin-tailed Snipe, mid-moult into breeding plumage.
Swinhoe's Snipe (right) and Pin-tailed Snipe. In this case the size difference is clear, but in the field you basically can't identify them by size alone.
A Pin-tailed Snipe that came up onto a concrete block in the evening. This was the individual that had been hiding in the grass all day.
A Swinhoe's Snipe that wouldn't come out of the grass.
Another Swinhoe's Snipe in the grass.
I don't often get a chance to photograph them, but there was a Common Snipe here too.
While I was watching a flock of Black-winged Stilts, a Whimbrel came down. Looking at it this way, the Whimbrel is surprisingly small — or is it that the Black-winged Stilt is large?
About 20 Oriental Pratincoles had come down. Three are visible in this photo.
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