#curlew sandpiper

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[2873/11080] Curlew sandpiper - Calidris ferruginea

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Scolopaci Family: Scolopacidae

Photo credit: Natthaphat Chotjuckdikul via Macaulay Library

[dansnaturepictures]

16/09/2023-Pennington

Flora and fauna photos taken in this set are of: 1. A neat and alluring Ruff we enjoyed watching wade in fishtail lagoon, a bird I love and we were lucky to get brilliant views of it. 2 and 10. A lovely Lapwing which we enjoyed closely nearby the Ruff, delightful to see its reflection. 3. Stunning Curlew Sandpipers. I was amazed to see seven of these prepossessing, distinctive and charming waders in the corner of fishtail lagoon, my Mum spotted eight. Some of these elegant birds had a nice rusty brown front. This is a bird we always feel extremely lucky if we can just see one of once in a year, in some previous years like this one we've seen them multiple times at coastal sites but we'd never seen so many at once before. This was sensational, a big moment in my autumn migration and birding year. 4. A nice Roe Deer we and some nice people we got chatting to enjoyed seeing. 5. Some of my first sea aster of the year, a very pretty flower and a key one here at this time of year. 6. Ringed Plover behind a Black-headed Gull on fishtail lagoon, it was good to see decent numbers of these today. 7. One of a few nice young Shelducks we saw. 8. Soapwort, a unique flower I like seeing here. 9. Blackberries.

It was brilliant to be back here seeing a great amount of birds, waders and ducks really shining today. Other highlights included many Dunlins, Little Stint, Knot, Redshank, Curlew, Oystercatcher, a fair few Black-tailed Godwits, beautiful Teal and Shoveler and Eiders offshore. Little Egret, Grey Heron, Great Crested Grebes, Redshank, Great Black-backed Gull, Starling, Whitethroat, Linnet, Pied Wagtail and Meadow Pipit were other avian highlights. I also enjoyed seeing butterflies Comma, Peacock and Small Heath well and Migrant Hawker the dragonfly of the moment for me. It was good to see bee on bramble flower, mossy rose gall, creeping thistle, creeping cinquefoil, musk mallow, possibly spurry, wild carrot, dock, gorse covered in a spider's web I'm seeing these well of late, rose hips and hawthorn.

[blogbirdfeather]

Dunlin, Ringed Plover & Curlew Sandpiper - Pilrito-comum, borrelho-grande-de-coleira & Pilrito-de-bico-comprido (Calidris alpina, Charadrius hiaticula & Calidris ferruginea)

Setúbal/Portugal (22/04/2023)

[Nikon D7100; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s; F7,1; 400 ISO]

[spinus-pinus]

Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus

12/2/2023 Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, California

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Bristle-thighed Curlew

Photo: Roger Woodruff

"A rare and enigmatic bird. It was discovered wintering on South Pacific islands in 1769, but its nesting grounds were not found until almost 180 years later -- in the late 1940s. It is now known to nest in a few hilly areas of western Alaska. During the winter, molting its feathers, it is unable to fly for a time -- the only shorebird known to have a flightless molt. This is no problem on remote islands with no predators, but becomes a serious handicap when humans settle on those islands."

- Audubon Field Guide

[phantom-of-the-north]

Biked to my home village yesterday and saw a northern lapwing with three little chicks! They were so tiny 😭

[theultimatenaturelover]

Leptostomia begaaensis, a pterosaur with a such weird beak shape that at first it wasn't even identified as one. They were quite small and similar to today's sandpipers.

Let's ignore that a donut couldn't possibly exist during the Late Cretaceous. The colors were based on similar long&thin-billed birds like sandpipers, ibises, curlews, avocets, oystercatchers and limpkins.

[herpsandbirds]

Birding report: Bolivar Peninsula 

1/17/25

Nothing amazing to report, a lot of typical winter Texas Gulf Coast birds. The tide was very low and there were a ton of white pelicans out on the mud flats, along with American avocets and black skimmers. There were also a decent number of pectoral sandpipers, long billed curlews, and marbled godwits. 

I was not able to find the horned larks I was looking for, but it was a beautiful day.

[kezisdrawing]

This is my @forduary entry for week one’s theme: Childhood. Since I’m taking an ornithology course this semester, I decided that it’d be neat to have all my entries include birds. So here we have kid Ford trying to identify the bird we see at the beginning of A Tale of Two Stans. Except it turns out that the bird doesn’t fit any known species! (I went a little nuts trying to identify it for this drawing and the closest I could get was some kind of weird mix of a Least Sandpiper and a Curlew Sandpiper. It genuinely never occurred to me that the Gravity Falls artists wouldn’t model a cartoon bird with complete scientific accuracy xD) Either way, this is proving to be a fun self-imposed challenge and I’m aiming to get the next entry out by this weekend!

[themorningowl]

63°25'19"N, 21°04'08"E

July 4, 2021 25°C. Sunny. Notes: An Eurasian hobby hunting swallows + first sighting of Arctic tern of the year. Wood sandpiper, common redshank and common curlew at the water's edge, looking drowsy in the heat. A bat that stuck its head out of a nest box but returned in horror at the sight of us! In the water closest to the shore shoal after shoal of small, small perch.

Valsörarna, Finland

[whatsthebird]

What's the Bird?

Location: Central Indiana, Spring

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[ornithological]

i love you shorebirds. i love you curlews and godwits and sandpipers and plovers and avocets and oystercatchers and pratincoles

[dansnaturepictures]

When summer meets autumn

When summer shakes autumn’s hand,

Baton exchanging from a season to the next,

Bringing rich natural sights and light across the land,

At the speed of time passing I’m perplexed,

Radiant Red Squirrels busy caching food in the wood,

Magnificent Red and Fallow Deers on edge,

Ready to rut and jostle for position in a wild neighbourhood,

Hawthorn, sloes and guelder rose berries lighting up the hedge,

Ospreys depart on their journey south,

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint and Pied Flycatcher passing through,

Gaggles of honking Brent Geese return to maintain the avian wealth,

Pintail, Spoonbill and promise of Redwing and Fieldfare to come too,

Speckled Wood, Red Admiral and Small White flutter through the sunny days,

Delightful dragonflies come into their own,

Common, Ruddy and Black Darter amaze,

Migrant and Southern Hawker ensuring you’re never alone,

Insects you make the most of as well as flowers,

Michaelmas daisies and devil’s-bit scabious with their classy hues,

Starting to enter are fungi fruiting with enchanting powers,

Wholesome colours like the fly agarics and amethyst deceivers that as times darken I can use,

Part summer, part autumn, hard to define,

Light lessens and softens, a shift tinged with reflection and glory,

A sky dominated by birds like many an exiting hirundine,

The trees begin to let go of green and make way for other colours, the next chapter of the story,

A poem I wrote last night about this current period of the year when summer gradually makes way for autumn. It's mostly based on recent sightings particularly from my week off the week before last, but does also make reference to some species to see later on. Some species included may be based more on the context of what to see at this time of year around my home area of southern England. In this photoset are some photos I've taken of the species and sights; Red Squirrel on Brownsea Island, sunset at home, Osprey and Spoonbills in Poole Harbour and Red Deer at Bushy Park taken during the week off, fly agaric near Bolton's Bench in the New Forest last autumn and recent photos of devil's-bit scabious at Andrew's Mare in the New Forest, Speckled Wood and hawthorn berries with a ladybird on at Lakeside Country Park and Black Darter at Thursley Common.

[blogbirdfeather]

Curlew Sandpiper - Pilrito-de-bico-comprido (Calidris ferruginea)

Setúbal/Portugal (16/12/2023)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s; F7,1; 400 ISO]

[aisphotostuff]

Oare Marshes & the Village Kent... by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Oare Marshes Nature Reserve...This Kent Wildlife Trust reserve is 67 hectares of grazing marsh, also freshwater and brackish dykes, reclaimed from saltmarsh after the building of the sea wall in 1953. It is part of the Swale Site of Special Scientific Interest and is an internationally important wetland under the 1973 Ramsar Convention. The reserve is at its best in spring and autumn when it is visited by migrant waterfowl and waders including common teal, gadwall, northern shoveller, northern lapwing, common redshank, little stints, curlew sandpipers, green and wood sandpipers, and black-tailed godwits. Long-billed Dowitcher (see image) has occurred repeatedly, as has a Bonaparte’s Gull. It is the here that Britain’s first tufted puffin was observed and photographed. In spring marsh frogs croak loudly from the wet margins of the pools and dykes

[anonsally]

Photos from birding at a marsh/shoreline area yesterday

My shorebird identification is very rusty, so @lies, please correct me if I have something wrong here; I would also appreciate your help on one of the birds we couldn't figure out.

Top row: a whimbrel

Row 2: a marbled godwit, I think

Row 3: a bunch of shorebirds, including (I think) a Western gull, least sandpipers, willets, marbled godwits, long-billed curlews, black-bellied plovers (though maybe they aren't in frame, not sure), black turnstones, ...? The photos are backlit--it was a weirdly glare-y day--so it's hard to tell what everything was.

Rows 4-5: Some kind of large plover. @lies, please help! This seemed larger than I thought the black-bellied plovers were and with a more prominent white eyebrow. But maybe that's what it was? It was in the marshy area rather than on the shoreline side, if that matters.

Row 6: juvenile black-crowned night heron; snowy egret.