Rising Tide Images
Wandering
With an expansive migratory range, the wandering tattler lives up to its common name. ‘Ūlili, the Hawaiian name, resembles this shorebird’s alarm call. ‘Ūlili were considered messengers and scouts of Hawaiian deities. On tropical islands it prefers probing crevices and crannies on intertidal shorelines, exposed reefs, and mudflats for invertebrates. This one prefers a muddy bank amidst the mangrove thicket of a brackish pond near West Loch. A magnificent navigator, the tattler annually migrates between Alaska and Canada to tropical Pacific islands on a high endurance non-stop flight of 3 to 4 days and nights. Using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field, perhaps visually with magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in its retina, ‘ūlili find a route over thousands of miles of featureless open ocean. Tringa incana, non-breeding plumage.
Wandering
With an expansive migratory range, the wandering tattler lives up to its common name. ‘Ūlili, the Hawaiian name, resembles this shorebird’s alarm call. ‘Ūlili were considered messengers and scouts of Hawaiian deities. On tropical islands it prefers probing crevices and crannies on intertidal shorelines, exposed reefs, and mudflats for invertebrates. This one prefers a muddy bank amidst the mangrove thicket of a brackish pond near West Loch. A magnificent navigator, the tattler annually migrates between Alaska and Canada to tropical Pacific islands on a high endurance non-stop flight of 3 to 4 days and nights. Using the stars and the earth’s magnetic field, perhaps visually with magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in its retina, ‘ūlili find a route over thousands of miles of featureless open ocean. Tringa incana, non-breeding plumage.