White-rumped Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper

Calidris fuscicollis

Pictures: Teus Luijendijk

I found this sight very impressive. Here are birds, several of them perhaps not more than 9 months old, that hatched from a nest somewhere high in the Canadian Arctic and have wintered here on the extreme southern tip of South America!
And soon they would be back on their way to the breeding grounds again.....


White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis videograbs (20x). Ushuaia, Argentina, 15 March 2002.