Bartramia longicauda
Upland Sandpipers are large sandpipers with brown, dark spotted upperparts, black rumps, white chins, bellies, necks and throats that have dark chevrons on their breasts and sides.
Four years ago today stopping for a Golden Eagle perched on a power pole in Box Elder County would net me a rare Upland Sandpiper sighting because of the sandpiper's chattering call.
I got to find, point out, and photograph a rare Upland Sandpiper in Utah well out of its normal migration route and range, what a day. What a find