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Willet
This common shorebird looks uniformly drab gray in non-breeding plumage until it spreads its wings offering a very different appearance. The Willet is a strictly North American breeding bird with two populations. This is the larger "Western Willet" (T. s. inornata) which breeds inland in the Great Basin and Northern Prairies. They winter along the Pacific Coast south to South America, as well as along parts of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts where they may overlap Eastern Willets during migration and winter. Formerly placed in the monotypic genus "Catoptrophorus" but moved to "Tringa" and placed between the Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs. Apparently genetics indicate the Willet is more closely related to the Lesser Yellowlegs than the Lesser is to the Greater. The similarity is contributed to convergence but I remain skeptical.
Location
Bayfront Park, Millbrae, California, USA.
Date taken
02 January 2022.
Scientific name
Tringa semipalmata
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Category
North America
Added by
jmorlan
Date added
View count
267
Comment count
2

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Device
Canon Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
Aperture
ƒ/6.5
Focal length
247.0 mm
Exposure time
1/1000 second(s)
ISO
200
Filename
WilletIMG_7810.jpg
File size
299.3 KB
Date taken
Sun, 02 January 2022 10:16 AM
Dimensions
1024px x 717px

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