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At Pulicat, near Chennai
This amazing wader is one of my favourite birds! Saw eight of these birds in this trip.
It always pains to read of reports from the UK of the rapid decline in numbers of curlews there.
The wood sandpiper is a small wader. This Eurasian species is the smallest of the shanks, which are mid-sized long-legged waders of the family Scolopacidae.
Scientific name: Tringa glareola
Small Gains Creek, Canvey Island. At the eastern end of the Island lies the āPointā, the Island fades from buildup land to salt marsh and a of little creeks. This is where the boating community come together. A haven for waders of migrating birds.
The pink-backed pelican (Pelecanus rufescens) is a bird of the pelican family. It is a resident breeder in the swamps and shallow lakes of Africa, southern Arabia. Pink-backed Pelican is one of the smallest of the 8 species, but is still a very large bird.
It has a pale greyish plumage, with pinkish back. Its dusky grey flight feathers contrast with the whitish wing coverts. Adultās upperwing pattern shows pale greyish or pinkish grey coverts, contrasting with dark grey flight feathers. They have dark grey wingtips. Legs are variable in colour, ranging from grey to yellow or reddish orange, becoming pinkish red in breeding season. They have webbed feet.
The beautiful Pink-backed Pelican was photographed in flight on an early morning boat ride on Lake Baringo, Kenya.
The lake takes on additional character and definition as the various emergent aquatic plants create points of interest jutting out from the shorelines. Here the annual arrival of the purple flowered pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) joins the drifts of water lilies already populating the shallows in a colorful celebration of summer.
A group of mixed waders taking off from the shore at Harrison Drive. Six of the birds are turnstone, two are sanderling (e.g. the rightmost bird) and one (small bird top centre) is a dunlin - the only dunlin I saw all day.
An Early morning walk down the Stour Estuary to see if the Wader passage had started.These four Greenshank flew into Newmill creek together with two Redshank. Very skittish birds so a distant shot had to suffice.Also present was a Kingfisher Common Sandpiper and 60+ Dunlin. Hoping for somthing more exotic as the Autumn approaches.
This little egret was a bit distant but I couldn't resist posting it as it looks like an exploding cartoon character.
A White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) feeding on brine shrimp in Chaplin Lake near a flock of Sanderling. This lake is an important staging and rest area for migrant, arctic nesting shore birds. The lake is located east of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
19 May, 2013.
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Redshank and curlew together in the Walton Channel on Monday. A murky day, so I have boosted the contrast a little!
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Lots of stilt sandpipers a few least and pectorials mixed in, Murray Marsh. Its been a good spring migration for waders
Grutto - Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa).
Number 262 on Flickr and still
at least 6,000 unpublished ones in the archives. (-;
An American Avocet chick trying to get under the wings of its parent for protection where two other siblings were already in there.
American Avocet parents keep their chicks under their wings to warm them up, also to protect them from predators when present.
Quite a rarity in these parts but if you look carefully there are a few pairs around š there are a few different ways to identify these waders from the more common sandpiper ..
The Green Sandpiper looks like a large house martin in flight. Its dark, almost black upperparts, pale underparts & white rump are distinctive and the common sandpaper has a white 'V' shape leading up to the shoulder .
Whilst up in County Durham at the beginning of this month I filmed the Sandpipers on the River Wear , very funny to observe bobbin around and feeding amongst the rocks and along the river bed .