A red-wattled lapwing on pebbly rocks. Its feathers are ruffled and it has a red mask (wattle) around its bill

A small group of namaqua doves; the male on the right has a red base to its bill. All the birds have long eleegant tails.

Morning All. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Black&Red - a Red-Wattled Lapwing and a BOFO for the alt theme and #Pigeons&Doves - this Namaqua Dove, one of the most elegant of its kind. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #EastCoastKind #Shorebird

#Shorebird eggs are optimised for camouflage and each one is a unique piece of art. Thee eggs are coloured by the females individually (who probably inspired the #Easter 🐇). Our annual "egg hunt" at Liminka Bay, Finland, searching for hidden #ruff and #dunlin 🪺 will soon start again.
#ornithology

A royal tern stands out amongst the herring gulls and laughing gulls on the sands of Myrtle Beach, SC.

#tern #royaltern #shorebird #beach #ocean #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #animal #birdpic #animalpics #naturephotography #myrtlebeach #southcarolina #travel

Along the shore, life moves with quiet intention.
Each winged presence shows how balance endures.
Their stillness feels like a small breath of peace.
And in their grace, wonder returns.

#photography #wallet #shorebird #wildlife #wildlifephotography

A wooden walkway over a shrubby dune.

A piper on wet, reflective sand around small mounds of seaweed. Surf and horizon in background.

A guy riding on a motorized, single-wheel, board vehicle on the beach. Wet sad in foreground; dunes, buildings, and sky in background.

A woman and a child walking on the beach; very small in the frame. The shot is directed by the surf and horizon.

🏖️: Crescent Beach, St. Augustine, FL

I haven't been to many beaches, but this one might be the best. Free, no hassle parking; excellent quality sand; no litter; not too much seaweed; plenty of room for lots of people… combined with today's weather […]

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A Spotted Sandpiper walks along next to reflective water.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay prompt is #speckled, and this #SpottedSandpiper is certainly that, as is its upside-down alternate-reality self.

#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #sandpiper #shorebird #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #nature #NaturePhotography

A Ring-billed Gull struts on the beach

#bird #birdoftheday #photography #blueskybirds #birdsofblueaky #seagull #shorebird #canonphotography #nature #edistobeach

💙🖤💚 Sandpiper preening in the surf #scrollbreak #shorebird #breathe

A cream-coloured courser casts its shadow on a ground of pebbly sand. The bird is orange brown with long spindly legs.

Good day to all. Happy Friday. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay of #grounded and (just about) the Alt theme #silhouettes&shadows
this very smart Cream-Cooured Courser on the desert floor #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #ECK #Shorebird #Wader

Grey-white bird (willet) with one leg caught mid-jump on beach with waves in background.

One-legged Willet on a Galveston beach
🪶 #birds #shorebird

A pair of avocets preening each other

Good day to all. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #MarriedCouples - These courting avocets #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #ECK #Shorebird #Wader

A Solitary Sandpiper walks through cloudy water near a riverbank. Its shadow and its reflection are both visible.

Todays #BirdOfTheDay prompt is #LandMeetsWater. This #SolitarySandpiper was in downright weird lighting conditions, and therefore, its shadow and its reflection were both visible. Well done, bird.

#birds #photography #BirdPhotography #sandpiper #shorebird #wildlife #WildlifePhotography

A kentish plover wading bird on a shoreline. The shore is littered wth green seed cases

Two little stint wading birds on a shoreline. The shore is littered wth green seed cases

Good day to all. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #LandMeetsWater - A pair of little stints, and a lovely kentish plover amongst the seed cases of a desert gourd edging an inland lake #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #ECK #Shorebird #Wader

The #Willet (Tringa semipalmata) is common #shorebird along North American beaches, mudflats, and salt marshes, they are loud, territorial #birds named for their piercing “pill-will-willet” song.

📍 Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
🗓️ January 7, 2026
📸 Nikon D500 | 200-500mm
@mybirdcards.com @aba.org

Do you work with breeding shorebirds? Do you collect FID data? Do you have data already or collecting data this year?

We are seeking data contributors for a new project investigating the diversity of nest defence strategies across breeding shorebirds.

Get in touch if interested!
#wader #shorebird

Noticing this urban #Wader or #Shorebird refuge at #Cullercoats Oystercatchers, Redshank and Turnstone #Birds #Nature UK

The Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) is a large, migratory #shorebird that breeds in the Arctic and winters along coasts worldwide.

📍 Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
🗓️ January 7, 2026
📸 Nikon D500 | 200-500mm lens

@mybirdcards.com @aba.org @abcbirds.bsky.social @audubon.org @nature.org

Desperately Seeking Sugg’erpak The global story of how a century-old Yup’ik mask is illuminating shorebird conservation today in Western Alaska and beyond. Way beyond.

The global story of how a century-old #Yup’ik mask is illuminating #shorebird conservation today in Western Alaska and beyond.

Way beyond.

ak.audubon.org/news/despera...

#seagull #seagulls #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #animal #animals #animalphotography #gull #gulls #seabird #seabirds #shorebird #shorebirds

A wide open Great Blue Heron for #BirdoftheDay #primarycolors
Olympia, WA 🪶

#ornithology #heron #blueheron #botd #olympia #olympiawa #olywa #birds #birder #pnw #birding #shorebird #nikon #naturalist #wildlife #nature #animals #birdphotography

Breeding seasonality in Charadriiformes on the Andean Altiplano is influenced by rain and possibly flood risk The Andean Altiplano in South America represents a remarkable mountain ecosystem with unique wildlife. However, knowledge of breeding ecology for birds inhabiting Andean Altiplano is scarce, relying ...

New paper with @calonectris.bsky.social on Andean shorebirds phenology is out in Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social, where we combined citizen-science and field data to decipher nest timing of understudied species: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #shorebird #bird #PhDstudy

Figure 1 Ursem (2026) Map of camera trap locations, with (A) the location of the Marker Wadden study area in the Netherlands; (B) a detailed overview of the studied area of the Marker Wadden, with red triangles (n = 6) indicating the sampling locations and the black arrows indicating the direction of the camera traps and the transects. The blue circle shows the position of the water level data-logger. (C) Ground image of the setup of one of the camera traps, with the transects indicated by the sticks.

New publication: #Shorebird responses to fine-scale water level #fluctuations and #macrofauna biomass in a newly constructed #freshwater #wetland.
doi.org/10.1111/rec....

#BirdOfTheDay theme for today is #BirdsInTheirElement. This Willet is patrolling the surf line. #shorebird #willet #wings #water #ocean #surf

Long Island seashore and a seagull starts its journey, lifting off from the edge of an old wood dock. Moody shorebird photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.

Along the shore, from the wood railing of a local pier, a gull takes flight on a gloomy day.
“Off to Shelter”
Prints: DangRabbit.com

#seagulls #birds #seagull #shorebird #birdinflight #birdphotography #photography #eastcoastkin

One of the few solitary Yellowlegs hunting the waters edge yesterday at Ridgefield NWR ... staying clear from the Dowitchers!

#shorebird #birds #wadingbirds #ridgefieldwa #wildlife #art #photography #birding #birdphotography #WestCoastKin #pnw #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #oiseaux #vögel

A very long legged black-winged stilt and a much smaller common sandpiper together on the edge of a water tank

Good Day All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #OddCouples, a black-winged stilt and its cousin a common sandpiper. A very mismatched couple. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #canon #photography #nature #naturephotography #wader #shorebird

"The royal tern rushes toward you out of a soft, glowing sky, wings stretched wide like pale sails catching a gentle wind. Its body is slightly blurred by motion, giving the sense that it’s slicing through the air with purpose, yet wrapped in a kind of dreamlike hush. The background is a smooth wash of color—faint blue drifting into warm cream—so the bird seems suspended in open space, weightless and unhurried. Its beak is open mid‑call, a tiny flash of orange against the muted sky, and the symmetry of its wings creates a feeling of balance and grace. Even in motion, there’s a softness to the image, as if the moment were cushioned by light. It feels intimate, like the tern is flying straight out of the horizon and into your awareness, carrying a bit of the ocean’s quiet with it." - Microsoft Copilot

Whisper of a Tern

I’ve said before that a photograph doesn’t need to be perfect to be worth enjoying. ...

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#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #shorebird #tern #royaltern

The sky is filled by flying barnacle geese. Their wing beats are blurred reflecting the sense of movement

Good Day All. My image for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #blurred - this view of a large flock of barnacle geese, taken as they took off when disturbed by a tractor. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #shorebird #geese #wildfowl

You don't want to be the furry mammal that this juvenile Great Blue Heron has its eyes firmly locked on....

#EverybodyEats

#sillybird #birding #pnw #birds #Heron #shorebird #birdwatching #birdphotography #pdx #wildlifephotography #art #blueskyartshow #eastcoastkin #wildlife #nature #vögel #bird

three blackwinged stilts in flight; their long pink legs trailing behind them. The birds are softly reflected in the water they are flying over

Good Morning All. My offering for today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #Black&White is this view of black-winged stilts. A very elegant bird. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #shorebird #wader