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Shorebirds
Up one levelPlovers, Sandpipers, Avocets, Curlews, Dowitchers, Snipes, Tattlers, Turnstones, Willets, Godwits, Phalaropes and more!
- Black Turnstone (Arenaria melanocephala)
- Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs
- Scientific Names: Tringa melanoleuca/flavipes
- Long-billed/Short-billed Dowitchers
- Scientific Names Limnodramus scolopaceus/griseus
- Surfbird
- Scientific Name Aphriza virgata
- Whimbrel
- Scientific Name Numenius phaeopus
- Wilson's Snipe
- Scientific Name Gallinago gallinago
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
- Scientific Name Charadrius vociferus
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Black Turnstone
- Photo by Joyce Meyer
- Dowitchers
- Short-billed on left & Long-billed on right - by Ryan Merrill
- Surfbirds with Black Turnstones
- by Joyce Meyer
- Whimbrel
- by Caren Park
- Wilson's Snipe
- by Len Steiner
- Dunlin
- by Hugh Jennings
- Marbled Godwits
- By Hugh Jennings
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- Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
- Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor
- The Wilson’s Phalarope (WIPH) is about 9.25” long with a wingspan of 17” and a weight of 2.1 oz. (60g). The genus name Phalaropus (fal-AY-row-pus) is Latin from the Greek phalaris, coot, and pous, foot. The species name tricolor (TRY-color) is Latin in reference to the three colors of this bird: white, black, and brown-red. The common name is in honor of Alexander Wilson, an early American ornithologist.
- Wandering Tattler Heteroscelus incana
- The Wandering Tattler (WATA) is about 11” long with a wingspan of 26” and a weight of 3.9 oz. (110g).
