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Western-Sandpiper-Jul-2023

            
Western Sandpiper plying the coast feeding.
Breeding adults have black, brown, rufous, and gold upperparts, with white underparts marked with extensive dark arrow-shaped streaks. They have a rufous crown and ear patch, and dark legs and bill. Nonbreeding adults are pale gray above, whitish below. Juveniles are similar to nonbreeding adults but the upperparts are more vivid in the wings, showing gold and rufous edges to feathers.
Forages by walking slowly through mudflats and similar habitats and pecking or probing to obtain tiny invertebrate prey. On breeding grounds, males perform multiple flight displays to the females. The females depart before the young have fledged and winter farther south, on average, than males.
   

Taken in: Canada / British Columbia / Esquimalt (show map)

Taken on: July 27, 2023

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