The Curlew Sandpiper that I decided to chase is one of those shorebirds that has a distinctive breeding plumage. About the size of a Dunlin, it is bigger than the peeps, the tiny shorebirds that ...

Both birds are about 8 1/2 inches in length and all gray, with the curlew having a cycle-shaped bill while the dunlin has a bill that droops at the end.

Vintage engraving of a dunlin (Calidris alpina) a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints" in Erolia. Familiar Wild Birds, W Swaysland. Dunlin A photograph of an original hand-colored ...

Black-headed gull, also medium-sized gulls, yellow-legged and others winter time Black-tailed and Bar-tailed Godwits Dunlin, Curlew Sandpiper Terns-2/3 species (lesser Crested Tern nearly 100,000 ...

Large flocks of migrant visitors such as Whimbrel, Eurasian curlew, Common redshank, Common greenshank, Lesser sand plover, Greater sand plover, Kentish plover, Terek sandpiper, Dunlin, Sanderling ...

We have studied overwintering Dunlin in the Fraser River Delta in suburban Vancouver. The delta supports the most northerly large overwintering population of Pacific Dunlin. Work on this population by ...

Ringed plovers have suffered declines of 39 per cent in 10 years, while redshank numbers have fallen 26 per cent and the dunlin has declined 23 per cent. Curlew numbers are down 17 per cent and ...

The most abundant waders found on UK estuaries in winter are dunlin, with an estimated 350,000 birds, oystercatcher, with around 320,000 individuals, and knot, with 320,000 birds.

The tagged Curlew sandpiper having crossed his 150-600 mm telephoto lens, he has a photo of the creature, which he has sent to Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) along with a request for ...

The Curlew Sandpiper, Eurasian Oystercatcher and Bar-tailed Godwit, commonly seen on the Sewri mudflats, have been added to the list of endangered birds. MUMBAI: The Curlew Sandpiper, Eurasian ...