Finding our winged friends (5) Oct 12, 2009
Seeing avocets, stilts and black-bellied plover, we then hurried north on the trail to see if there were any rails in the reeds. No rails there, but as we came back, there was a little gray-backed sandpiper picking in the mud - a spotted sandpiper. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Placid, haunting beauty of Mono Lake Aug 26, 2009
The brine shrimp and alkali flies serve as food sources for millions of shorebirds, including American avocets, killdeer and sandpipers, which 00004000 use the lake as a rest stop during their long migrations. Resident birds flock here as well. (Fresno Bee -- Sports)
Altering the landscape Aug 12, 2009
A dizzying array of stilts, bald eagles, yellow-headed blackbirds, pelicans, gulls, avocets, grebes, great blue herons, Caspian terns and more fly overhead, bunch-up in trees and shrubs, or float like rafts on wetlands. Anglers sitting in parked boats cast for trout and enjoy the summer day while fishers of another sort, osprey, periodically hover, dive and, more often than not, fly away clutching a meal in their talons. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Birds at the water, ants at the feeder Jul 27, 2009
They include the sandpipers, plovers, stilts, avocets, phalaropes, yellowlegs, godwits, and others. Every spring, these shorebirds migrate thousands of miles from as far as the Neotropics and the tip of South America to as far North as the Arctic Circle. (Forest Republican, WI)
Oregon Recreation Report Jul 25, 2009
American avocets and black-necked stilts are very numerous at this time, with incubation and brood rearing well underway ... American avocets and black-necked stilts are very numerous at this time, with brood rearing well underway, only a few birds remain on nests ... The Bullgate Refuge, East Link and Link Marsh units have large numbers of nesting and brood rearing American avocets and stilts at this time. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Striking a Balance (37) Apr 12, 2009
Migratory waterfowl including American white pelicans, great blue herons, snowy egrets, grebes, avocets, cormorants, terns, gulls -- obviously -- and more, come to Gull Island and the surrounding environs to nest and feed through the spring and summer to raise their brood and then head south for the winter. For the rest of this story, see Sunday's Idaho State Journal. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Observing Florida Shorebirds in the... Mar 8, 2009
Exceptions to this are the larger stilts and avocets which mate both before they fly north and during the migration to their breeding locations ... Avocets and stilts wade in moderately deep water, dipping their bills below the water's surface. (Suite101.com)
