Study Of A Curlew Sandpiper And Some Other Shorebirds At The Heislerville WMA Impoundment Today

Study Of A Curlew Sandpiper And Some Other Shorebirds At The Heislerville WMA Impoundment Today

A couple of hours of bright sunshine combined with a thousand or more shorebirds and a Curlew Sandpiper to make for a great morning. The Heislerville WMA Impoundment was loaded with Dunlins, Short-billed Dowitchers, Black-bellied Plovers, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Semipalmated Plovers, Black Skimmers, a few assorted Yellowlegs and one really pretty female Curlew Sandpiper in breeding plumage.

Although this sandpiper is considered a rarity, it is seen a few times a year in our part of the country. The bird breeds in northern Siberia, rarely east to Alaska and it winters in sub-Saharan Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and Australasia. Migrants are widespread, eastward to the islands of the Bering Sea and westward rarely to the Atlantic Coast of North America. The Curlew Sandpiper vagrants elsewhere in North America and widely in the West Indies.

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!CurlewSandpiperA	!CurlewSandpiperB	!CurlewSandpiperC	!CurlewSandpiperD	!CurlewSandpiperE

!CurlewSandpiperF	!CurlewSandpiperG	!CurlewSandpiperH	Black-belliedPloverFemale1	Black-belliedPloverMale5

BlackSkimmers1	DunlinBreedingPlumage2	DunlinBreedingPlumageSleeping1	DunlinJigSawPuzzle	LeastSandpiper

PeepJigSawPuzzle	SemipalmatedPlover	SemipalmatedPlover2	SemipalmatedSandpiper2	ShorebirdJigSawPuzzle

Short-billedDowitcher1	Short-billedDowitcher2	Short-billedDowitcher3	Short-billedDowitcher4	Short-billedDowitcher5

Willet1	Willet2

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