Meme Museum of History

VERILY MY LIEGE!!!

Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) LEUCISTIC, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, CA, USA

photographs by Mary Beth Cantrell

L - Red-necked Stint (Calidris ruficollis) and

R - Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, Coast of WB, India

photograph by Santanab Majumder

Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), T- winter plumage, B - breeding plumage, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes

Breeds on the coast of the Bering Sea.

Winters in SE Asia.

photographs by tareq’s photography & Jan van de Kam

Upland Sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes

Nests on the northern prairies and tundra of North America.

Overwinters on grassland in South America.

Not usually found on beaches or shoreline, like most other sandpipers.

This is one of my nemesis birds! I’ve never gotten a great look at this bird, so this is the year I make a concerted effort to finally get one!!!

photographs: Johnath & Sean Evans

Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius), family Scolopacidae, order Chradriiformes, KY, USA

photograph by Mike Blevins

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), HE STRUTT!!!, family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, North Slope of Alaska

photograph by Stephen Dunaway

Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, TX Coast, USA

photograph by James Corgill

Tuamotu Sandpiper aka Kivi-Kivi (Prosobonia parvirostris), family Scolopacidae, order Charadriiformes, endemic to the Tuamotu Islands in the South Pacific

ENDANGERED.

While this sandpiper feeds along shorelines, like other shorebirds, it is also found in thickets and scrubland.

Endangered due to habitat destruction and the intorduction of rats to their islands. (Rat eradication on some islands has greatly benefited the birds).

You must be saying, but that is just a regular rooster.

WRONG

At this point you’re probably sweating, maybe shaking and crying saying, surely that child is just short, but again you’d be

WRONG

but then it keeps coming