Shorebird migration brings waves of sandpipers and plovers to Northeast Ohio: Aerial View. Updated: Aug. 08, 2012, 9:16 p.m. ... a buff-breasted sandpiper. These handsome, ...

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.

This is one tough sandpiper. No other shorebird winters as far north as does the purple sandpiper, with some of the birds remaining as far north as Newfoundland on the Atlantic Coast.

Other birders found a Baird’s sandpiper and two Western sandpipers, both excellent finds for Maine. We were delighted to see two marbled godwits, the first I’ve seen in Washington County in ...

But shorebird numbers reach a yearly crescendo every spring right about now, when up to half a million stop on their flight north, which for the longest migrant can be 15,000 miles. Advertisement ...

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

Extremely rare ‘spoonie’ bird added to ark of imperiled animals. The 13,000th image in National Geographic’s Photo Ark is the spoon-billed sandpiper, a critically endangered shorebird known ...

It was a single shorebird, an individual sandpiper. It was one of the species officially known as a solitary sandpiper. In reality, this species is most often seen one at a time, ...

Shorebird identification can be daunting. Shorebird enthusiasts scan flocks looking for a western sandpiper among the many semipalmated sandpipers, or an American golden-plover among the black ...

Forsythe (Brigantine) National Wildlife Refuge is one of the best shorebird migration locations in America, but there are others, too.To find the Baird's and buff-breasted sandpiper, seek them out ...

They are the only sandpiper to expect in a grassland. If you venture to Hi-Lonsome Prairie near Cole Camp this summer, check the fences. Upland sandpipers are about a foot long with a wingspan of ...