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Pectoral Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper - Juvenile

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Las Galletas (Arona), Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» November, 2014

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Calidris melanotos - Pectoral Sandpiper

Bird Species (French)

»Bécasseau à poitrine cendrée

Bird Family

»Scolopacidae - Sandpipers, Snipes

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» This is one of the more regularly reported waders from North America in the Canary Islands and other Eastern Atlantic archipelagos. In any case, it is considered a vagrant to the Canaries. Normally many records are from autumn (mainly of juveniles), like in this case.

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