Study Of A Male Curlew Sandpiper (Breeding Plumage) And Some Other Birds This Weekend

Yesterday morning, I went to the Heislerville WMA impoundment on Matt's Landing Road and was able to photograph the male Curlew Sandpiper. I spent yesterday afternoon at E.B. Forsythe NWR (Brigantine.) Today, I went back to Brigantine and have updated this webpage with some additional photos including a second summer Glaucous Gull.

The Curlew Sandpiper at Heislerville was 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 is a vagrant elsewhere in North America and widely in the West Indies.

The first Black Skimmer and the third Snowy Egret (in breeding plumage...notice the red lores) were also at Heislerville. All the other photos were taken at Brigantine.

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