Numenius americanus

* Birds Long-billed Curlew

The Longest Beak

October 22, 2018October 14, 2018 Mosey2014 Numenius americanus

No mudpecker can compete with the Long-Billed Curlew when it comes to probing deep. The Marbled Godwit can go deeper

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* Birds Long-billed Curlew

Long-billed Curlew

March 5, 2018May 1, 2019 Mosey2014 Numenius americanus

I’ve seen this Long-billed Curlew, or another like it, several times this winter, always in the mudflats around the Schoolhouse

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* American Avocet American Coot American Crow American White Pelican American Wigeon Belted Kingfisher Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Phoebe Black Turnstone Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Brown Pelican Bufflehead Burrowing Owl Canada Goose Clark's Grebe Common Goldeneye Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Eared Grebe Eurasian Wigeon Forster's Tern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Greater Scaup Greater Yellowlegs Horned Grebe Least Sandpiper Long-billed Curlew Mallard Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Northern Pintail Red-throated Loon Ring-billed Gull Ruddy Duck Snowy Egret Spotted Sandpiper Surf Scoter Turkey Vulture Western Grebe Western Gull Whimbrel White-tailed Kite Willet

North Basin: The Video

February 12, 2018May 1, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Actitis macularius, Aechmophorus clarkii, Aechmophorus occidentalis, Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, Ardea alba, Ardea herodias, Arenaria melanocephala, Athene cunicularia, Aythya marila, Branta canadensis, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Calidris minutilla, Cathartes aura, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Egretta thula, Elanus leucurus, Fulica americana, Gavia immer, Gavia stellata, Haematopus bachmani, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Limosa fedoa, Mareca americana, Mareca penelope, Megaceryle alcyon, Melanitta perspicillata, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Nycticorax nycticorax, Oxyura jamaicensis, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, Pelecanus occidentalis, Phalacrocorax auritus, Pluvialis squatarola, Podiceps auritus, Podiceps nigricollis, Recurvirostra americana, Sayornis nigricans, Sterna forsteri, Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa semipalmata

The North Basin is the body of water between Cesar Chavez Park and the Berkeley mainland. When I first started

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* Birds Black Oystercatcher Black Turnstone Ceanothus Common Goldeneye Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Curlew Marbled Godwit Mew Gull Plants Rock Rose

Sunday Walk

March 5, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Arenaria melanocephala, Bucephala clangula, Ceanothus, cistus, Haematopus bachmani, Larus canus, Limosa fedoa, Numenius americanus, Tringa flavipes

Clouds dark as a herd of buffalos rumbled across the sky today. Looking up from my observations in the Meadow,

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American Avocet Birds Black-necked Stilt California Towhee Least Sandpiper Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Curlew Mew Gull Mourning Dove Northern Shoveler People Ring-billed Gull Sanderling Western Gull Whimbrel

An Organized Bird Walk

March 2, 2017January 21, 2019 Mosey2014 1 Comment Calidris alba, Calidris minutilla, Himantopus mexicanus, Larus canus, Larus delawarensis, Larus occidentalis, Melozone crissalis, Numenius americanus, Numenius phaeopus, Recurvirostra americana, Spatula clypeata, Tringa flavipes, Zenaida macroura

The Audubon bird walk that Emilie Strauss led this morning covered familiar ground and waters but uncovered a number of

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