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Buff-breasted Sandpiper (11)

Tryngites subruficollis

(Near-threatened)

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Aug 29 2025

Details: immature, outside normal range

Sarsfield (Ottawa) - Up to four birds were present for a few days – I saw two. They are rarely spotted in migration in the region.

Date uploaded: Aug 31

Comments (2):
Ahmad Shah: Fantastic find, well captured.
Brian Morin: At close range the bird can easily be seen but a little further away and not moving, it becomes invisible thanks to perfectly matched plumage.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (11)

Tryngites subruficollis

(Near-threatened)

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Sep 23 2022

Details: juvenile

Presqu'ile Provincial Park - Gull Island. An uncommon to rare species in the park. They might get one every year or every other year in fall migration.

Date uploaded: Sep 30 2022

Comments (6):
Sue Bishop: Excellent. One of my favorites.
BrianMorin: Mine too. One or two had been seen off and on for a couple of weeks but it took me 3 trips to the park with 5 visits to the island before it worked out. In fact, I had given up on the last trip and was going to head back empty handed when I got it.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (11)

Tryngites subruficollis

(Near-threatened)

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

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Date taken: Sep 8 2022

Details: juvenile

Oshawa - Had great fun with a couple of very obliging regional rarities that allowed very close approach. Actually they were the ones approaching us, not the other way around. At times they were as close as a metre. If these birds are ever reported we'd expect to check specific fields, especially sod farms but in this case they were feeding on algae-covered rocks along a beach on Lake Ontario.

Date uploaded: Sep 9 2022

Comments (4):
Chris: Fabulous. This colour always stands out to me as unique for some reason.
BrianMorin: The buffy colour stands out. There is a similar colour on parts of a Baird's but it is not as prominent as on this species.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (11)

Tryngites subruficollis

(Near-threatened)

Brian Morin

Canada (Ontario)

Date taken: Sep 15 2015

Presqu'ile Provincial Park - Only one in the area we were in and more elusive than the other shorebirds.

Date uploaded: Sep 22 2015

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