Wader Quest Talk tomorrow
23rd January 19:30 pm (GMT)
Preston Society Birdwatching and Natural History
St Mary’s Church
Church Avenue,
Penwortham Preston
PR1 0AH
@ Alex Mascarell Llosa

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"A Royal Tern" is a picture I captured at Stump Pass Beach in Englewood, 🧡🧡🧡


Available as and more in my shop 🧡🧡🧡

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Curlew, redshank and turnstone hunting through the mud beneath the sea wall to see what the tide left

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Snow and shorebirds don’t often go together - but we do have one plucky shorebird who sticks around in winter: Wilson’s Snipe

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😊🌿🦩🌊 ¡Día Mundial de las Aves Playeras!!! 🐧 Watercolor
Se promueve la investigación y monitoreo de estas especies, así como destaca la importancia de su conservación a nivel mundial.       

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To migrate, shorebirds need a lot of energy. They get it by eating, until they sometimes double in weight.

What if food is shaped a little weird? No worries, that’s where rhynchokinesis comes in. It's the ability to flex the upper part of their beak!

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I was surprised to see a little group of turnstones still here yesterday, thought they’d all be gone by now. And still not all fully moulted

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Redesigning my for The Menagerie, based on some local shorebirds!

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Ongoing global cooperation collects data on uniparentally incubating shorebirds.

What follows is an example of our preliminary findings.

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Dunlin, foraging on the tideline. These tiny little waders have a downturned bill, giving them a slightly mournful expression

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Curlew trying to find breakfast and avoid the attentions of some very annoying redshank. I’ve never seen waders pestering a curlew before, though the gulls do it regularly (and they’ve attack the redshank too)

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Purple sandpipers in the rocks - ink and watercolour sketch

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My bird books always call knot ‘dumpy’, which I feel is a bit rude and makes me wonder about the writers’ own physiques….this one was skipping quite nimbly through the seaweed yesterday

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Turnstones, beachcombing - ink, watercolour and gouache on Arches Not paper

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Seabirds & shorebirds of Monterey Bay painted in watercolor. Love this area of so nice for and artistic inspiration. & lovers, please visit my shop for prints.


🎨 https://t.co/TTNIrfK62s

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70 º Latitude! 🔝🔝This redshank was spotted in Vadsø, Norway will have a long journey southward (>7K km) to winter again on the tropical coast of Bijagós archipelago (11º).

connecting habitats & cultures🌍



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Sanderlings feeding as the tide comes in - this was back in the winter, they’ll be heading off soon to their Arctic breeding grounds. Good luck!

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Did someone say FIVE MILLION That's definitely reason for celebration. The Copper River Shorebird Festival in Cordova, Alaska is going to be awesome, with both in-person and virtual content.
And I'm looking forward to talking about ISS too!
https://t.co/osCZlmFeyO

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