Rising Tide Images
Messenger
With an expansive migratory range, the wandering tattler lives up to its name. ‘Ūlili, the Hawaiian name, resembles the wandering tattler’s alarm call. On tropical islands it prefers to feed by probing crevices and crannies on intertidal shorelines and exposed reefs for invertebrates, often dodging breaking waves. This one watches the sunrise from a coastal ledge in Mokulē’ia. ‘Ūlili were considered messengers and scouts of the gods.
A magnificent navigator, the tattler annually migrates from Alaska and Canada to tropical Pacific islands on a high endurance non-stop flight of 3 to 4 days. Using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field, perhaps visually with magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in the retina, to find its way over thousands of miles of featureless open ocean. Tringa incana, non-breeding plumage.
Messenger
With an expansive migratory range, the wandering tattler lives up to its name. ‘Ūlili, the Hawaiian name, resembles the wandering tattler’s alarm call. On tropical islands it prefers to feed by probing crevices and crannies on intertidal shorelines and exposed reefs for invertebrates, often dodging breaking waves. This one watches the sunrise from a coastal ledge in Mokulē’ia. ‘Ūlili were considered messengers and scouts of the gods.
A magnificent navigator, the tattler annually migrates from Alaska and Canada to tropical Pacific islands on a high endurance non-stop flight of 3 to 4 days. Using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field, perhaps visually with magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in the retina, to find its way over thousands of miles of featureless open ocean. Tringa incana, non-breeding plumage.