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SHOREBIRDS
Profiles of birds
SHOREBIRDS
Articles from the pages of
BirdWatching
about oystercatchers, curlews, plovers, turnstones, and other shorebirds (or waders).
Published: April 17, 2012
American Oystercatcher
Species profile: American Oystercatcher
American Woodcock
Species profile: American Woodcock, America's sky dancer
Black Turnstone
Species profile: Ruddy Turnstone and Black Turnstone
Eskimo Curlew
A birdwatcher at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, reports seeing a species presumed extinct: an Eskimo Curlew
Piping Plover
Species profile: Piping Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Species profile: Ruddy Turnstone and Black Turnstone
Willet
Species profile: Willet
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