Curlew sandpiper - Calidris ferruginea
Photographed at Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
The curlew sandpiper is a small slender sandpiper about the size of a wrybill, which is also the species it usually associates with at high tide in New Zealand. It is a regular summer visitor to New Zealand, but in declining numbers. The global population is thought to be increasing but the East Asian-Australasian Flyway population is in decline. Probably fewer than 40 birds now reach New Zealand each summer - www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
Curlew sandpiper - Calidris ferruginea
Photographed at Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, New Zealand.
The curlew sandpiper is a small slender sandpiper about the size of a wrybill, which is also the species it usually associates with at high tide in New Zealand. It is a regular summer visitor to New Zealand, but in declining numbers. The global population is thought to be increasing but the East Asian-Australasian Flyway population is in decline. Probably fewer than 40 birds now reach New Zealand each summer - www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz