Judy and I spent some time in Corpus Christi, Texas over Thanksgiving Weekend in 2021. We spent quite a bit of time in the
Aransas NWR and I walked the 1.4 mile roundtrip Heron Flats Trail. On that walk I saw my first, and so far only, stilt sandpiper. Birds of the World notes that "it avoids tidal mudflats in favor of pools or lagoons, where it forages in belly-deep water," which is what my photo illustrates.
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| Illustration of breeding plumage from Birds of the World. |
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| Illustration flying from Birds of the World. |
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| Illustration of non-breeding plumage from Birds of the World. |
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| Range from Birds of the World. Note that they breed in the far north and have only a small area of wintering ground in the U.S., which likely includes where we were. |
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