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Bird Photography by Richard King: Shorebirds: Other Shorebirds

  • The turnstone can be spotted fluttering around large stones on rocky and gravelly shores, flipping them over to look for prey.
  • A Surfbird is larger than turnstones and other rock-loving shorebirds. It is stocky and stout-billed with short yellow legs.
  • Color photograph of a Semipalmated Sandpiper from the Taylor Highway near Nome AK, in breeding plummage with relatively short, blunt-tipped bill, dark legs and gray-brown plummage.
  • Color photograph of a Semipalmated Sandpiper from the Taylor Highway near Nome AK, in breeding plummage with relatively short, blunt-tipped bill, dark legs and gray-brown plummage.
  • Color photograph of a Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), a small plover, relatively slender with dark brown upperside, dark cheek, orange legs and orange bill base.
  • Color photograph of a nesting Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), a small plover, relatively slender with dark brown upperside, dark cheek, orange legs and orange bill base.
  • Color photograph of a Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), a small plover, relatively slender with dark brown upperside, dark cheek, orange legs and orange bill base.
  • Color photograph of a Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana),overall dark gray color with unmarked wings and tail, relatively short yellow legs and long wings.
  • Color photograph of a Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana),overall dark gray color with unmarked wings and tail, relatively short yellow legs and long wings.
  • Color photograph of a Wandering Tattler (Tringa incana),overall dark gray color with unmarked wings and tail, relatively short yellow legs and long wings.
  • Color photograph of Sanderlings (Calidris alba), size close to Dunlin with short bill. Paler than any other shorebird in nonbreeding with broad white wingstripe and dark leading wing edge.
  • Color photograph of Sanderlings (Calidris alba), size close to Dunlin with short bill. Paler than any other shorebird in nonbreeding with broad white wingstripe and dark leading wing edge.
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  • A Surfbird is larger than turnstones and other rock-loving shorebirds. It is stocky and stout-billed with short yellow legs.
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    • Elegant Trogon
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    • Gruiformes
      • Sandhill Cranes
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    • Gulls, Terns & Skimmers
      • Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
      • Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger)
      • Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
      • Forster's Tern (Sterna fosteri)
      • Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
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    • Herons, Egrets and Bitterns
      • Egrets
      • Great Blue Heron
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      • Verdin
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      • American Golden Plover
      • Baird's Sandpiper
      • Bar-tailed Godwit
      • Black-bellied Plover
      • Black-necked Stilt
      • Common Snipe
      • Dunlin
      • Greater Yellowlegs
      • Hudsonian Godwit
      • Killdeer
      • Least Sandpiper
      • Lesser Yellowlegs
      • Long-billed Curlew
      • Marbled Godwit
      • Piping Plover
      • Red-necked Phalarope
      • Short-billed Dowitcher
      • Solitary Sandpiper
      • Spotted Sandpiper
      • Stilt Sandpiper
      • Whimbrel
      • Willet
      • Wilson's Plover
      • Wilson's Snipe
      • Other Shorebirds
    • Shrikes & Vireos
    • Silky Flycatchers & Bulbus
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      • Mountain Bluebird
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      • Other Thrushes
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      • Eastern Phoebe
      • Great Kiskadee
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