They were not alone, over 30 pectoral sandpipers and a single solitary sandpiper were also found.

Common shorebirds include killdeer, snipe, least and pectoral sandpipers, and greater and lesser yellowlegs.

These birds closely resembled juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers, but without a well-demarcated breast-band (although the Japanese bird showed strong streaking on the breast-sides).

A "mediocre" birding day here, she said, might include a raft of 400 scoters feeding on bay mussels, several eiders, an array of short-billed dowitchers, pectoral sandpipers and other shore birds on the beach and migrating kestrels and sharp-shinned hawks flying overhead.

Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)

The Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) is a small, migratory wader that breeds in North America and Asia, wintering in South America and Oceania.