# Help with a bird ID
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-bird-id/714502
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 8, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-bird-id/714502 "2015-03-08T03:47:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2015, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-bird-id/714502/1 "2015-03-08T03:47:54Z")
I saw a bird today I thought I could easily identify so I don’t have pictures. It looked and acted very much like a sand piper. I didn’t see it fly. It ran a lot on fast, spindly legs.
I tried Google but got no where.
The main difference was it had 3 (I think) dark (black?) bands on its neck. She was guarding a nest she had built on the ground. In it was one egg. [I did get a picture of that](https://d1u1p2xjjiahg3.cloudfront.net/2e406c41-cdfb-4dbd-bdf5-ec40c7a65291_l.jpg).
I saw this bird in the Visalia, CA.
Help anyone?
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-bird-id/714502/2 "2015-03-08T04:17:06Z")
[Killdeer](http://wildaboututah.org/images/wikimedia.curt.hart.Killdeer_Charadrius_vociferus.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-bird-id/714502/3 "2015-03-08T04:18:49Z")
That’s it, thank you!