turnstones

The rising tide was pushing little flocks of waders up the beach, including oystercatchers, redshanks and turnstones, the latter beautifully camouflaged as they fed on the exposed rocks.

Birdwatch: Black redstart 2011

There are more birds, waders, among the weed that fringes the seals 'rocks, turnstones and redshanks probably, but so far away are they, and so well does their brown plumage blend with the background, it is difficult to be sure.

Country diary: South Uist 2010

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 2009

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

grackles, and ants, and stripers, and shorebirds, oh my! 2009

Spectacled eiders, ruddy turnstones, and black turnstones are common breeding birds in the lowland tundra of this province.

Seward Peninsula Tundra - Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009

Godwits (Limosa lapponica baueri), knots (Calidris caanutus), and turnstones (Arenaria interpres) are the most commonly seen species.

Nelson Coast temperate forests 2008

Long-legged sandpipers, turnstones, and plovers regularly cruise these graceful arches, stopping occasionally to pluck a morsel from the tangle of seaweed, driftwood, and shells.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Long-legged sandpipers, turnstones, and plovers regularly cruise these graceful arches, stopping occasionally to pluck a morsel from the tangle of seaweed, driftwood, and shells.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Long-legged sandpipers, turnstones, and plovers regularly cruise these graceful arches, stopping occasionally to pluck a morsel from the tangle of seaweed, driftwood, and shells.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Still more puzzling was it to come across a party of turnstones, with males in full, brightly varied nuptial dress, for turnstones during the breeding season live north of the arctic circle, in the perpetual sunlight of the long polar day.

X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916