Category: Birds
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SANDWICH TERN – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Sandwich Tern is a pale medium-sized tern with a geographically variable bill pattern: black with a distinct yellow tip in most of its range
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BLACK SKIMMER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Black Skimmer, one of North America’s most distinctive coastal waterbirds, is noted for its unusual voice, bill, and feeding behavior.
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HEERMANN’S GULL – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Unique smoky-gray gull with red bill. Breeding adults have a clean white head that blends seamlessly into the gray neck; nonbreeding adults have smudgy dark streaking on the head. Immatures are entirely dark brown with a yellowish or reddish bill with a dark tip. Almost exclusively coastal; usually seen in…
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FRANKLIN’S GULL – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Franklin’s Gull is a small, black-hooded gull that nests in small to very large colonies in marshes of interior North America.
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LAUGHING GULL – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Laughing Gull is a slender, medium-sized gull with long wings. Medium-gray upperparts.
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LEAST SANDPIPER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the small sandpipers known as “peeps”—not much bigger than a sparrow.
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SANDERLING – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Sanderling is a small, plump sandpiper, most commonly associated with sandy coastal beaches, which it occupies in winter and while on migration.
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WILLET – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
A medium-sized, moderately abundant shorebird, the Willet remains brown and inconspicuous until it opens its wings, displaying an unusually broad white wing-stripe that runs across the primaries and secondaries, bordered in black.
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SPOTTED SANDPIPER – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Spotted Sandpiper constantly bobs its tail while working edges of streams, ponds, and lakes for invertebrates.
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WHIMBREL – Pura Vida Birds and Birding
The Whimbrel, a large shorebird, is the most wide-ranging of the curlew species and the only one that nests across both the Nearctic and Palearctic.
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