Marsh Sandpiper

Marsh Sandpiper is a small, elegant shank that looks like a slim greenshank, with a long fine bill and very long yellowish legs. It is greyish brown in breeding plumage and paler in winter, and shows a white wedge up the back in flight. It is more closely related to the common redshank and wood sandpiper than to the greenshank. It is 22 to 26 cm long with a wingspan of 55 to 59 cm and weighs 45 to 120 g (Wikipedia, general species account). (Wikipedia, general species account).

Together, they form a group of smallish shanks which tend to have red or reddish legs, and in breeding plumage are generally a subdued, light brown above with some darker mottling, with a pattern of somewhat diffuse small brownish spots on the breast and neck. The first marsh sandpiper recorded in Canada was found on 30 April 2022 in Thedford, Lambton County, Ontario by James Holdsworth, and attracted over a thousand birders from Ontario and Michigan, as well as birders from as far away as Texas and Washington State.. (Wikipedia, general species account).