Today is International Shorebirds Day!
Here's a Good Article about what the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences is doing. This is who listener's PhD*Son works for, especially with American Oystercatchers and Semipalmated Sandpipers.
Photos of birds by PhD*Son
Photo of PhD*Son by Brad Winn
NOAA Migration Map via Manomet
Blue Geese
King Eider trio
American Golden Plover
PhD*Son writes: "Best distinguished by dark tail and plain gray underwing without black armpit. Breeding plumage has black belly and undertail coverts. Soul melting eyes."
PhD*Son contemplating a Ruddy Turnstone
PhD*Son writes: "This is the flight path from one of our tagged Semipalmated Sandpipers. This bird flew over 10,000 miles in a single year, Including a 3300 mile non-stop (six days) jump from James Bay in Canada to the coast of Venezuela. Oh, and it weighs about as much as an AA battery."