The best known of sex-role-reversed shorebirds are the spotted sandpiper, phalaropes, and jacanas. |
Other wintering species include little egret, spoonbill, hen harrier, merlin, peregrine, green sandpiper and common sandpiper. |
The majority of sandpiper species adopt the breeding strategies outlined above. |
It has a round head with large, black eyes, and a relatively short bill for a sandpiper. |
But in Iceland and at the southern borders of its breeding range generally the purple sandpiper usually nests on the fells. |
They did not observe the pectoral sandpiper and buff-breasted sandpiper, the next most numerous species in the present study. |