Date: 5/12/26 6:47 pm From: Phil Jeffrey <phil.jeffrey...> Subject: [JERSEYBI] Fwd: Dunlin x White-rumped Sandpiper hybrid at Brig
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From: Phil Jeffrey <phil.jeffrey...>
Date: Tue, May 12, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Subject: Dunlin x White-rumped Sandpiper hybrid at Brig
To: Jersey Birds List <JerseyBirds...>
I would have entered details in eBird, but eBird is too dumb to recognize
this hybrid in my checklist. Late in the day at high-ish tide, between
Goose Markers 8 and 9, past the sluice, in a large flock of Dunlin feeding
buried up to their bellies in the water. Structurally rather like Dunlin
but a fraction smaller with a shorter less drooped bill, strikingly marked
with black chevrons on white on breast and belly and flanks, extending down
the flanks and some streaking on the undertail. No black belly, no rufous
back (instead brown with dark-centered feathers) - actually resembled
Sibley's illustration of this hybrid although the actual bird was a little
less rufous on the crown and cheek. No photos, not least of all because
all the shorebird flocks were repeatedly taking flight today. 'Scope views
in good light at the time.
