Shorebirds & Waders

These are our photographs of shorebirds and waders. They are organized in groups as shown in the Table of Contents below.

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1.  Ibis, Storks, Cranes, etc.
Wood storks, Florida. 12/01	Wood stork, Everglades. 2/05	Wood Storks, Mazatlan, Sinalow. 3/07	Wood Storks looking at drained wetland, Mazatlan, Sinalow. 3/07	Sandhill Cranes, Galveston Island, TX. 1/06	Sandhill Cranes, Anchorage mudflats, AK. 7/07
Roseate Spoonbills and White Ibis, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Adult and juvenile White Ibis, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Young White Ibis, near Rockport, TX. 1/08	Adult White Ibis and Pied-billed Grebe, Rockport, TX. 1/08	White Ibis, Brazos Bend State Park, TX. 2/08	Australian (Sacred) Ibis, Australia. 10/02
Egret, little blue heron, and spoonbill feeding. Florida Everglades, 2/05	Three blind mice! Florida Everglades, 2/05
2.   Herons
Great Blue Heron, Adolph Thomae, Jr County Park, TX. 1/06	Great Blue Heron, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Great Blue Heron, Florida Everglades. 2/05	Great Blue Heron, Pt. Townsend, WA. 5/07	Great Blue Heron, Victoria, BC. 6/07	Great Blue Heron, Corpus Christi, TX. 108
Bare-throated Tiger Heron, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Green Heron, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Green Heron, Florida Everglades. 2/05	Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Takoma Park, MD. 4/08	Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Guaymas, Sonora. 1/07	Black-crowned Night Heron, Las Glorias, Sinaloa. 1/07
Young Black-crowned Night Heron peeking, Morro Bay, CA. 11/07	Tricolored Heron, Adolph Thomae, Jr County Park, TX. 1/06	Tricolored Heron, Florida Everglades. 2/05	Little Blue Heron, Antigua. 3/03	Little Blue Heron roosting, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Little Blue Heron, Brazos Bend State Park, TX. 2/08
3.  Egrets
Great egret, Everglades. 2/05	Great egret, Florida. 12/01	Great egret and gull, Galveston beach, TX. 2/08	Great Egret, Barataria Preserve, LA. 2/08	Snowy Egret, Morro Bay, CA. 12/06	Snowy Egrets, Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 3/07
Snowy Egret, Corte Madera, CA. 10/07	Snowy Egret by the roadside, Rte 35, TX. 1/08
4.  Sandpipers
Shorebirds feeding, Morro Bay, CA. 12/06	Shorebirds feeding on horseshoe crab eggs, Delaware. 5/08	Greater Yellowlegs, Corte Madera, CA. 10/07	Greater Yellowlegs, Corte Madera, CA. 10/07	Lesser Yellowlegs and Solitary Sandpiper, Huntley Meadows, VA. 4/08	Solitary Sandpiper, Huntley Meadows, VA. 4/08
Endangered Red Knots with Ruddy Turnstones, Delaware Bay. 5/08	Short-billed Dowitcher, Rockport, RX. 1/08	Dowitchers, Corte Madera marsh, Greenbrae CA. 11/06	Dowitchers and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Delaware Bay. 5/08	Dunlin and Dowitcher, Rockport, TX. 1/08	Dunlin, Rockport, TX. 1/08
Dunlin, Semipalmated Sandpipers, and a ? Delaware Bay. 5/08	Sanderlings, Estero Bay, CA. 12/06	Sanderling, Rockport, TX. 1/08	Sanderlings, Rockport, TX. 1/08	Flock of migrating sanderlings, Stone Harbour, NJ. 9/05	Semipalmated Sandpiper with horeshoe crab egg, Delaware Bay. 5/08
Sandpipers (?Least), Morro Bay, CA. 12/06	Red-necked Phalarope (pelagic), Siuslaw River,OR. 9/06
5.  Plovers
Semi-palmated Plover, San Blas, Nayarit. 2/07	Black-bellied Plover, Port Townsend, WA, 5/29/07	Kildeer, Morro Bay, CA. 10/07	Kildeer, Port Townsend, WA 5/07	Lone Kildeer and Sanderling, Port Townsend, WA 10/06	Piping Plover, Galveston Island, TX. 2/08
6.  Other Waders
American avocet, Corte Madera marsh, Glenbrae CA. 11/06	Another avocet, Corte Madera marsh, Glenbrae CA. 11/06	Avocets, Mazatlan, Sinaloa. 3/07	Curlew, Estero Bay, CA. 12/06	Long-billed curlew, Morro Bay, CA. 10/07	Godwits, Willets & Heerman's gulls, Monterey, CA. 12/06
Willet, Estero Bay, CA. 12/06	Willet, Rockport, TX. 1/08	Flock of Willets, Morro Bay, CA. 11/07	Willet, Bombay Hook, DE. 5/08	Marbled Godwit and Willet, Estero Bay, CA. 12/06	Marbled Godwit, Morro Bay, CA. 10/07
Marbled Godwit, Rockport, TX. 1/08	Bar-tailed Godwit E-7, Long-distance champion. 9/07	Black-necked Stilts, Corte Madera, CA. 10/07	Stilts and Ruddy Turnstones, Delaware Bay. 5/08	Ruddy Turnstones, Delaware Bay. 5/08	Ruddy Turnstones, Rockport, TX. 1/08
Black Turnstones, Monterey, CA. 12/06	Oyster catcher, N. Uist, Scotland. 6/06	Royal tern and oystercatchers, San Blas, Sinaloa. 2/07	Bird Island, near Las Glorias, Sinaloa. 1/07	Assemblage at Corte Madera, CA. 10/07