NONBREEDING SPOTTED SANDPIPER, HUMBER RIVER, LAMBTON WOODS PARK, TORONTO, ON

   We identified this sandpiper as a Spotted Sandpiper in nonbreeding (winter) plumage as follows:

• Relatively dark and unpatterned above and white below (in breeding plumage there are spots below).
• White wedge near shoulder, between dark above and dusky smudge.
• White line over eye.
• Orange-yellow legs and bill.