willets

However, due to differences in size, physical proportions, plumage colour, voice, range and ecology, the eastern and western willets are likely to be elevated to separate species status in the future.

Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata 2011

You should know that the pink base is not always present on eastern willets.

Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata 2011

I loved Kim, I loved the willets, the coconut husk bobbing out to the salt, the crocodile that was somewhere around because they lived here, too.

Kook Peter Heller 2010

Three willets flew over calling pill-will-willet as a I got out of the car.

some fog in coastal areas 2009

As I walked down the boardwalk to the beach I heard willets, purple martins, song sparrows, yellow warblers, least terns, wait a sec, they're all coming from the same bush.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

But the salt marsh is still a carnival for birds—for Caspian terns, willets, plovers, yellowleg sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers—all picking their way through the feast.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Myra had her binoculars out, looking for laughing gulls, willets, curlews, and of course skimmers.

MORE FROM GINNY BATES: AT THE BEACH IN 1994 Maggie Jochild 2007

As I walked down the boardwalk to the beach I heard willets, purple martins, song sparrows, yellow warblers, least terns, wait a sec, they're all coming from the same bush.

some fog in coastal areas 2009

But the salt marsh is still a carnival for birds—for Caspian terns, willets, plovers, yellowleg sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers—all picking their way through the feast.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Three willets flew over calling pill-will-willet as a I got out of the car.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009