I think you're probably right, Cliff. I looked at them both on allaboutbirds.com, and the birds I saw looked darker overall than curlews, and the fields they were in seemed like they were more typical of the ibis's habitat.
Thanks to you and Subhash for your replies.
Judith
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Sounds like White-faced Ibis rather than curlews.?
Cliff Hawley
Sacramento, CA
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 6:37 PM Judith Poxon <
jlpoxon@...> wrote:
I drove up the valley a ways today, to Pleasant Grove (just east of 99, about 30 minutes north of Sacramento). On the way to my destination, I saw several fields (mud flats, really) in which quite a few largish brown birds with downward curving bills were foraging.
I couldn't get a good look because I was driving, and there weren't any good places to pull off to get a better look, so I can't say anything about field marks. Any ideas what they were most likely to be?
Thanks.
Judith
