sanderlings

• “There was a small flock of sanderlings (Calidris alba), along with the usual cormorants.”

  "Close your eyes, clear your heart, and cut the cord."

• “Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.”

  Archive 2009-05-01

• “That was about it except for some very distant sanderlings and cormorants.”

  bird baths in the road and other anomalies

• “There were tons of semipalmated and least sandpipers, some sanderlings, two semipalmated plovers and one piping plover.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Maybe if I had the special fog-penetrating binoculars :- All the usual gull suspects put in appearances, as did sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, more willets, and tons and tons of cormorants.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “Two sanderlings weaving in and out among them look ridiculously small and hyper compared to the black-bellieds.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “The sanderlings are still noshing on coquinas in Cape May.”

  Archive 2008-09-01

• “The amazing thing about sanderlings is that every year they fly nearly eight thousand miles to get to their wintering ground.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Life You Longed For

• “Then one of the sanderlings got too close and the plover attacked it.”

  Archive 2007-07-01

• “Yes, they were PIPING PLOVERs -- well 11 of them were, the other two were sanderlings.”

  Archive 2007-04-01

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