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Pectoral Sandpipers Calidris melanotos at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
By Corey • August 6, 2010 • 6 commentsA recent visit to the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay got me up close and personal with quite a few species of shorebird, among them several Pectoral Sandpipers. Calidris melanotos is not at all a rarity in Queens during the fall migration but it is not so common a shorebird that one would want [...]
Pectoral Sandpiper at Jones Beach
By Corey • October 29, 2007 • 3 commentsOn Sunday, October 28, I birded Jones Beach and Point Lookout in Nassau County, hoping to find migrating passerines blown to the barrier beaches by the strong northwest winds. I found some but not many. Instead of the expected passerines the bird that stole the show was a cooperative juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos). The [...]
