Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos
In Southern Ontario where I live, there is very little good shorebird areas, except for sewage lagoons. During migration I often vist the nearby Townsend Sewage Lagoon, which has an old settling cell which attracts a good variety of shorebirds passing through. Even the uncommon species are seen on occasion, and once in a while something very rare like the Curlew Sandpiper which showed up a few years ago.
This morning there were good numbers of Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidris melanotos, mostly juveniles in fresh plumage. They nest in the high arctic, and the North American populations, as well as much of the Eurasian, winter in South America. Some of the Eurasian birds winter to Australia and New Zealand as well.
 |
 |
 |
 |
If you would like to be informed of future Nature posts, Click Here.
