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  1. Sanderling

    Sanderling

    This was taken on the beach in South Padre Island. Love how these little guys run around. Hope you enjoy the image.
    • Jim Crosswell
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    • calidris alba sanderling shore bird
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: North America
  2. Atlantic Oystercatcher standing proud on the sun bathed sand

    Atlantic Oystercatcher standing proud on the sun bathed sand

    Female. Found in beach/shore habitat. Was seen eating mussles as well as clams and other shellfish/mollusks. Was in a pair with a male listed in the next gallery photo.
    • ShlundoKyogre
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    • avon by the sea beach new jersey shore oystercatcher shore bird usa
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  3. Dabs

    Trinidad - Shore Bird Identification

    The bird in the attached photos was seen in a river foraging with Greater Yellowlegs and Lesser Yellowlegs nearby. Its size seemed to me to be comparative to a Greater Yellowlegs. The legs are distinctly yellow, but it definitely is not a Yellowlegs species, with that "heavy" bill an overall...
  4. Ruddy Turnstone with a splash

    Ruddy Turnstone with a splash

    I used to hike to waterfalls - a lot. So this one was fun to get a lifer bird with a frozen splash.
    • IDidiot
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    • florida gulf coast ruddy turnstone shore bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  5. Oystercatcher

    Oystercatcher

    An Oystercatcher on the shore of the Baltic. In Germany, they are much more frequent on the shores of the North Sea.
    • jafritten
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    • oyster catcher haematopus ostralegus shore bird
    • Comments: 7
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  6. American oystercatcher full face picture

    American oystercatcher full face picture

    • IDidiot
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    • american oyster catcher american oystercatcher florida gulf of mexico shore bird shorebird
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
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    DSC_0717.JPG

    Ruddy Turnstone
    • 0$ParkingTicket
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    • new jersey shore bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
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    DSC_0326.JPG

    Purple Sandpiper On the Jetty at Barnegat Light
    • 0$ParkingTicket
    • Media item
    • nikon d7500 shore bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  9. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Grand Chevalier.
    • Plectrophane
    • Media item
    • shore bird tringa yellowlegs
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  10. Micah_G

    Some cool birds I found in Central MT

    This was about 20 days ago birding some short grass prairie for longspurs and possibly Mountain Plovers. Some of the cooler finds included Burrowing Owls, Common Nighthawk, Greater Sage-grouse, a few shorebird species and a long in need lifer Grasshopper Sparrow. The last photo includes...
    • Micah_G
    • Thread
    • ebird intermontana montana nightjar owl shore bird
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Birds & Birding
  11. Sanderling

    Sanderling

    A Sanderling on the beach on Assateague Island, VA
    • Huhwhat
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    • sanderling shore bird
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  12. Great Blue Heron with Chick

    Great Blue Heron with Chick

    Magnolia Gardens Rookery
    • STM
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    • ardea herodias great blue heron heron shore bird
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
  13. Hudsonian Gowit

    Hudsonian Gowit

    Barge hudsonienne Husdonian Godwit portrait
    • Plectrophane
    • Media item
    • godwit hudsonian godwit shore bird wader
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: North America
  14. Hudsonian Godwit

    Hudsonian Godwit

    Barge hudsonienne. Back in September. There were about 50 of them.
    • Plectrophane
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    • barge godwit hudsonian gogwit lake champlain limosa haemastica shore bird
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  15. Dunlin

    Dunlin

    Dunlin feeding on the Tundra near Dead Horse, Alaska.
    • Mross
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    • arctic calidris calidris alpina dunlin shore bird stints tundra
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  16. Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover

    Black-bellied Plover in Wooley Lagoon near Nome, Alaska.
    • Mross
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    • arctic black-bellied plover grey plover plover pluvialis pluvialis squatarola pluvialis squatoralo shore bird tundra worldwide.
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  17. red knot

    red knot

    red knot long island n.y.
    • glide133
    • Media item
    • shore bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  18. Wow...this water's cold

    Wow...this water's cold

    • twins920
    • Media item
    • heron shore bird tricolor heron
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  19. Avocet

    Avocet

    I still have only seen these once down at the reserve. They sure are beautiful!
    • twins920
    • Media item
    • avocet shore bird
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  20. Northern Lapwing

    Northern Lapwing

    Northern Lapwing on Ramstein AB, Germany
    • 999dallas999
    • Media item
    • lapwing shore bird wader
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  21. Immature Black-crowned Night Heron

    Immature Black-crowned Night Heron

    Discovered by a friend in her back yard. Photographed using a combination of Canon Digital Rebel and Swaro AD80 HD (tube attachment).
    • Sunshine68
    • Media item
    • heron immature shore bird wading bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  22. Sanderling

    Sanderling

    • herb barnes
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    • shore bird
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: North America
  23. Ruddy Turnstone

    Ruddy Turnstone

    • herb barnes
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    • shore bird
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: North America
  24. Marbled Godwits

    Marbled Godwits

    Pea Island NWR
    • DurwoodE
    • Media item
    • shore bird wader
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: North America
  25. Lesser Yellowlegs

    Lesser Yellowlegs

    • DurwoodE
    • Media item
    • shore bird yellowlegs
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: North America
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