Saudi Arabia is celebrating a remarkable sighting of the elusive pectoral sandpiper, a rare waterbird that migrates across continents. Arab News reported that the bird was spotted inside the King ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The bird of the week for today is Pectoral Sandpiper. The Pectoral Sandpiper is a medium-sized, chunky shorebird. It is a long-distance migrant that breeds on the Arctic Tundra, ...

Pectoral sandpipers hunt for food in the mud flats of Lake Red Rock, a flood-control reservoir about 25 miles southeast of Des Moines. Photo by Stephen Dinsmore/Iowa State University. Nonstop flights ...

Educational games, science presentations, birding tours and sketching were a part of the Utqiaġvik Shorebird Festival last week. The free two-day event celebrated shorebirds – such as the American ...

August urges me to listen; September advises me to pay attention to subtleties; October says wait until spring. Decades ago, I couldn’t have heard what they were telling me and couldn’t have ...

Although identifying shorebirds can be challenging, I promise you it is not impossible to learn. If you are new to shorebirds one technique to help you begin learning is to narrow down the playing ...