Learn the keys to identifying the Spotted Sandpiper, and how to tell it apart from its tricky lookalike, the Solitary Sandpiper, in this short clip with Kevin McGowan. 🔑 With shorebirds, behavior is one of the best characteristics to help with identification. The Spotted Sandpiper’s trademark is a full-body bobbing motion, seesawing up and down as it picks its way along the shoreline looking for invertebrates. (Fun fact: This quirk has inspired nicknames like teeter-peep, teeter-bob, teeter-sni