A long knitting needle of a bill caps a dome-like noggin with eyes that look several times larger than they should be. The ...

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is a focal species of the Alianza work that is being protected with other threatened resident and migratory birds along Americas´ Flyways. After leaving the US, one of the ...

In the colorful world of avian courtship, the ruff (Calidris pugnax) is in a league of its own. Breeding in marshes and wet meadows across Eurasia, the males of this medium-sized sandpiper species ...

Once there, what she had initially thought was a curlew sandpiper turned out to be a bird she did not recognize. If the Estonian Rare Bird Sightings Committee confirms Hiibus' observation, the stilt ...

Of those at least nine species are regarded as extinct. The Eskimo curlew would boost that extinction to 10, but disagreement muddles the species’ status even though verifiable sighting of a ...

Conservationists have been left stunned after a satellite-tagged Spoon-billed Sandpiper revealed a previously unknown breeding location for the species. The bird, known as 'K9', was first tracked to a ...