For a shorebird, the upland sandpiper is a bit odd: It tends to avoid wetlands, instead opting for the prairie scene, where it distinguishes itself by hunting insects like grasshoppers rather than ...

By Kristine Sabillo 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 ...

Return of the Sandpiper Thanks to the Delaware Bay’s horseshoe crabs, the tide may be turning for an imperiled shorebird Abigail Tucker October 2009 ...

A tiny shorebird relies on a tinier phytoplankton here in B.C. on its migration to Alaska. Will this miraculous relationship halt a port's expansion plans?

The 13,000th image in National Geographic’s Photo Ark is the spoon-billed sandpiper, a critically endangered shorebird known for its spectacular migration.

Home / News / Environmental News ISU research finds that lowering reservoir water levels aids shorebird migration Researchers worked with the Army Corps to lower Red Rock’s water level ...

A closer look at a semipalmated sandpiper at Johnson's Mills Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Centre. (Jordan Myles) No decision on the statue has been made yet.

Shorebird enthusiasts scan flocks looking for a western sandpiper among the many semipalmated sandpipers, or an American golden-plover among the black-bellied plovers.

Robin Mongoyak demonstrates how a male pectoral sandpiper fills an air sack in its chest during a mating display or territorial flights during the Shorebird Festival in Utqiagvik in June, 2023.

Sixteen shorebird species have been reclassified to higher threat categories as the global population of migratory shorebirds across the world saw a substantial decline, according to the latest ...

“The sandpiper would dive, be totally submerged, bob to the surface quickly, and attempt to lift off. The black falcon would spin and drive the shorebird back into the water, again and again and ...