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Cogswell
1949
Totanus flavipes
Dec. 11 - 90 ft., 3 ½ mi. SE Suisun, Merced Co., Calif.
3 [illegible] alighted among a flock of
Red-backed Sandpipers, which were
feeding in the shallow water at the
edge of a duck pond here. They
were spaced out about 20 - 40 ft.
from each other, foraged for only
a minute or two and then the 3
of them took off again (without the
rest of the shorebirds being disturbed)
while they were in view in the water
we were afforded good views of
their size (body very nearly equal
to the Snipe) and smallness
of bill (decidedly thinner & shorter
than that of Greater Yellow-legs, which
was just across the corner of the
pond at the time).