The United States is a big country…

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

An Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani quotation

Solitary Sandpiper

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Solitary Sandpiper

Diet: Primarily feeds on insects, especially aquatic insects, but also terrestrial insects such as grasshoppers and beetles. Also will feed on small crustaceans, mollusks, worms, small amphibians, and occasionally small fish.

Identification Tips:
• Length: 7 inches
• Fairly small, long-legged shorebird
• Greenish legs
• Bold white eye ring
• Dark rump
• Dark tail has black bars on the white outer tail feathers
• Dark underwing
• Sexes similar
• Juvenile similar to basic-plumaged adult
• Usually solitary, often bobs tail

Behavior: Prefers shallow water along shorelines for foraging, both by probing with its bill in the mud and water, and by picking food items from the water’s surface. These Solitary birds will occasionally stir up the stream or lake bottom with their feet to reveal food items.

They are Non-breeders in South Dakota.

Song: A crisp, rising pee-EET flight call. Alarm call is a sharp, short kleek.

Migration: Summers throughout much of Canada and Alaska. Winters in South America.

 

 

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

By Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

 

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