Actitis macularius

Piper Slips

Updated Dec. 29: I posted this originally as a Spotted Sandpiper. Sharp-eyed birder Kevin Steen emailed me to suggest that

The Spotted Sandpiper has very few spots at this time, and they’re light. The spots come and go with the

Photographer James Kusz had a great walk in the park. He caught a mature Spotted Sandpiper, a pair of Willets,

This Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius) was busy gleaning what it could from the rocks ahead of a rising tide. The

It’s September, and things are looking up in the avisphere, if that’s a word. Meaning, more birds are showing up.

A Spotted Sandpiper standing still is an unusual sight. This individual found a barnacle-encrusted perch just above the waters of

This is an extremely rare video of a Spotted Sandpiper standing still for a solid minute. No hyperactive pacing, no

The water level in the North Basin dropped nine feet (9.08 to be exact) in just over seven hours (7’9″

The Spotted Sandpipers living along the south and west shores of the North Basin are now showing some spots, if

I’ve now spotted, oops, observed the Spotted Sandpiper in three locations: on the south edge of the North Basin, on

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