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Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
Norfolk
Pectoral sandpipers are scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young pectoral sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here.
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
Norfolk
Pectoral sandpipers are scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young pectoral sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here.
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
Pectoral sandpipers are scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young pectoral sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here.
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
Norfolk
Pectoral sandpipers are scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young pectoral sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here.
Pectoral Sandpipers have dense streaking on the breast, but there is a sharp border with the white belly. Their slender down-curved bills are dull green to orange at the base.
Sturgeon County, Alberta.
According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: "The Pectoral Sandpiper is among the most recognizable of small shorebirds, larger than the small “peep” sandpipers and sporting a distinctively stippled breast that ends neatly at a white belly."
They are migrating through our region on their way to their Tundra breeding grounds.
Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County, Alberta.
Bécasseau à minuscule
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutilla
Baie Missisquoi
St-Armand
Grand merci à Germain Lachance ainsi qu'à Daniel Dupont qui m'ont aidé à identifier l'oiseau. J'ai fait erreur en l'identifiant comme un Bécasseau à poitrine cendrée alors qu'il s'agit d'un Bécasseau minuscule. Voici ce que Daniel m'a écrit pour le reconnaître:
"Il a encore de ses plumes d'été et son bec est fin et noir contrairement à la poitrine cendré qui as un bec un peu plus jaunâtre et les rayures descendent plus bas sur la poitrine et atteignent un peu le ventre"
Germain me dit que le cou devrait être plus long et les raies de la poitrine devraient descendre plus bas et couper net! Il devrait avoir un peu de jaune à la base du bec.
Bref, ils ne sont pas toujours facile à différencier ces limicoles.
Merci les gars!
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
Norfolk
Pectoral sandpipers are scarce passage migrants from America and Siberia. A few are seen in spring, but the vast majority appear in late summer and autumn. Young pectoral sandpipers from the eastern coast of North America can be blown over the Atlantic by areas of low pressure. It is the most common North American wading bird to occur here.
I was concentrating on the Dowitcher on the right when this group of Pectoral Sandpipers flew in.
Edmonton, Alberta.
"Pectoral Sandpipers nest from the tundra of easternmost Russia across Alaska and into northern Canada. A few migrate to Australasia for the winter, but most winter in southern South America. This means that some Pectoral Sandpipers make a round-trip migration of nearly (30577 km)19,000 miles every year!" The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Photographed in the wild, Nova Scotia, Canada
Fotografiado en la naturaleza, Nova Scotia, Canada
There were two Pectoral Sandpipers that walked right past me as I laid on the shoreline. They breed in Northern Canada and migrate to Southern South America. Round trip of 19,000 miles. Thanks for stopping by Bucks County PA.
Bécasseau à poitrine cendrée
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotos
Baie Missisquoi
Venise en Québec
Lifer
This is one species where the male is considerably larger than the female with the female being only about 2/3s the size of the male.
They are the true olympic champions of long distance migrations. After spending the winter months on the pampas of southern South America they fly north to their breeding grounds in the high Arctic. Some of these birds log up to 30,000 miles (48,000 km) per year.
Males migrate earlier than the females and when the females arrive the males will try to attract as many females as they can with their deep, booming calls and flight displays. They will accumulate as many females in a harem as they can breed and guard.
During migration this species has been recorded as being seen in every state and province in North America.
The females make a nest in a shallow depression in moist to wet tundra where she will incubate probably 4 eggs for 21 - 23 days. Males have no part in nesting duties.
Juveniles have a buffy wash on their streaked breast so this bird I believe is a juvenile male since he is so much larger than most of the other birds accompanying him.
Esmoriz | Portugal
Muito obrigado pelos seus comentários e favoritos.
Many thanks for your coments and favs
Ils étaient plusieurs à profiter de la dernière lumière.
Lifer!
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Merci de prendre le temps de visionner et d'apprécier mes photos. Je lis tout vos commentaires!
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Thank you for taking the time to look and appreciate my pictures. I read all your comments!
A Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) forages along the shores of Miquelon Lake southeast of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
6 August, 2013.
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I photographed this Pectoral Sandpiper near Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), way up near the Arctic Circle. This male Pectoral Sandpiper had staked out his stage, a slight rise in the tundra that isolated him perfectly from the background and elevated both his posture and his ego.
In breeding season, these sandpipers head far north and crank the drama up a notch. That puffed chest isn’t a medical emergency—it’s a built-in sound system. The male inflates air sacs in his breast to produce a deep, booming hoot, like a feathered subwoofer trying to impress the neighbors.
And the high ground? That’s no accident either. In the flat tundra, elevation means visibility. From this perch, he can advertise to the ladies and shout territorial warnings to rival males: “This rise is mine, and so is the good acoustics.”
He’s loud, proud, and dressed for the season—because in the bird world, love is war, and sometimes war is won by looking fabulous and yelling about it.
Couplet: Stage Presence
He puffed out his chest like a bird with a plan—
Booming his heart out across the flat land.
Nests in wet, grassy tundra, usually near coastal areas. Migrants and wintering birds select grassy wetlands of many types, both natural and artificial (such as sod farms, rice fields, wet pastures).
Picks and probes in shallow wetlands and mud for invertebrates. Males perform spectacular flight and terrestrial displays.
Adults are patterned in brown, gold, and black above, with white belly and neat dark-brown rows of stipples on the breast that stop sharply at the white belly. Juveniles are similar but with some rusty-edged feathers above. The legs are yellowish. In flight, shows little to no wingstripe.
A Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos) taking a much needed break during the spring migration to the arctic nesting grounds. This wetland was on the prairie landscape east of Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
10 May, 2023.
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