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Whimbrel

Posted on Sep 5, 2016

Whimbrel

This is not a very good photo, but it is a very good bird – the Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus). If you live near any coastal areas you should keep an eye and an ear open to watch and listen for them migrating by right now, as this bird was doing. It was really moving, and being an able and swift flier is something you need to do when you are cruising between continents and hemispheres…

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Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)

Posted on Sep 21, 2014

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)

I loved seeing this Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) surrounded by fall foliage of a more uncommon sort in the Great Meadows Marsh in Stratford, Connecticut earlier today, living up to its past (and still current) billing as one of the best coastal birding habitats in the United States according to our own Roger Tory Peterson. Are you elated for autumn yet?!  

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Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) by Twan Leenders

Posted on Feb 23, 2014

Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) by Twan Leenders

Here’s a Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) that Twan photographed running along the shore in Costa Rica in December. It’s not going to feel like it later this week but our shorebirds will all be returning soon or already are! I’m very ready to welcome them back to our beaches, islands, marshes, mudflats and anywhere else they’d like to frequent.

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