Please fill out as accurately as possible. Include only those details of which you are certain and only those observed in the field; leave blank details not observed. Attach any additional comments or details on separate sheets. Please print or type Species Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Date(s) 8 October 1973 Location Woodland Sugar Ponds, Woodland on Rd. 102 County Yolo State Calif Elevation Observer Van Remsen Number of birds 1 Time of Day 1640 Light conditions overcast but bright Distance to bird 50-300' Optical equipment scopes + 10x50 bins Length of time observed 20 minutes Sex Unknown Plumage (e.g. Breeding) Fall immature Overall appearance and relative size: Size and shape like a Pectoral Sandpiper but in the small end of Pectoral variation in body size Bill: Same size and shape as Pectoral - longer than head and with a slight droop Crown and forehead: bright rusty red with fine dark streaking, very sharply outlined from eye-stripe (which was much broader and more conspicuous than a Pectoral's) Nape: brownish Face: very whitish, much more so than Pectoral; white sharply demarcated from buffy on chest and sides of neck giving it a very white-faced, white-throated appearance which contrasted strongly with breast, cap - the pattern was very crisp and clean and strikingly different from a blury Pectoral face Eye: very light prominent eyestripe (more conspicuous than Pectoral); dark line behind eye Throat: whitish Breast and sides: Very bright buffy - much more orange than the buffiest Pectoral. Where the throat and breast meet, there was a darker bronze collar which was apparently a row of vertical dot-like streaks but they were very fine and faint. Belly and flanks: Whitish. Demarcation from buffy breast not particularly sharp or even Undertail coverts: not seen Back: like Pectoral with two buffy streaks forming V pointing towards neck Wings: like Pectoral but much more orange in primaries - very conspicuously bright orange Underwings: white Rump: not seen Uppertail coverts: dark