Juvenile Least Sandpipers Calidris minutilla
By Corey • August 20, 2010 • 3 commentsJuvenile Least Sandpipers are among the most beautiful of shorebirds. Their gorgeous white-fringed feathers and propensity for allowing close approach combine to make them a treat every single summer during shorebird season. Sure, young Short-billed Dowitchers are also attractive creatures, American Avocets and Wilson’s Phalaropes are just plain neat to see, and everyone likes to see a rare Siberian shorebird, but this birder in the northeastern United States invariably considers it a good shorebird outing even if all of the above are lacking but a cooperative young Calidris minutilla wanders close by.
What a great little bird! Here’s hoping that there are lots of them this year so there will be lots next year and so on and so forth ad infinitum.
Tags: Least Sandpiper, sandpipers, shorebirds
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This birder in the southwestern part of Germany invariably considers it a good shorebird outing even if all of the above are lacking but a cooperative young Calidris minutilla wanders close by.
I am quite sure there are less than 5 records of Least Sandpiper from Germany.
Ha !
Corey, very beautiful words and great pictures, particularly the close-up. Well done.
A beautiful bird, but the close-up of the feathers is absolutely awesome!
Thanks!
And, Jochen, if anyone is in a position to find Germany’s next Least Sandpiper it is you. Now get to it!