Seemingly adapted to tough conditions is this stout, short-legged sandpiper. It winters farther north on the Atlantic Coast than any other shorebird, and its chosen habitat is on coastal rocks pounded ...

A beautiful but strange little sandpiper, its short bill and round head giving it the look of a plover. On migration it typically stops on prairies, fields of short grass, and even dry plowed fields, ...

Using the world’s smallest known satellite transmitter, conservationists were able to track a spoon-billed sandpiper, thought to be the world’s rarest migratory shorebird.

the world’s rarest and most threatened migratory shorebird has been sighted for the very first time in the country. The spoon-billed sandpiper, with a global population estimated at around 490 ...

What does the semipalmated sandpiper look like? The semipalmated sandpiper is a small shorebird with a short neck, long, black legs and a thin blunt-tipped bill. It is named for the partial webbing ...

Imagine travelling over 3,000 kilometres without any stops, any fuel, any luggage or any engine. Our partners at Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network have created a terrific story map ...

This year-round resident of South Pacific atolls has a suite of adaptations, including short bills and legs, rounded wings, nectar feeding, and extensive use of trees, making the Tuamotu Sandpiper a ...

Since 1993, the Wildlife Ecology Chair at Simon Fraser University has fostered a research network to examine the year-round activites of highly migratory shorebirds,emphasizing the Western Sandpiper .

"Greater protection of the horseshoe crab is needed to fully recover the red knot, as well as conserve other shorebird species, such as the ruddy turnstone and semipalmated sandpiper." Asia's tri ...

Even though the common sandpiper is a reasonable piping piper candidate, other people might argue that some of the other shorebird species (and there are quite a few to choose from) could instead ...

Male ruff sandpipers engaging in the act of mating typically fall into one of three groups, with variations in how aggressive they are and how showy ...