| Seagulls keened and skied, pelicans bobbed on the swells, sandpipers left sharp three-toed tracks along the tidal margin. |
| Overall foraging niches of avocets and dowitchers were segregated from each other and from Least and Western sandpipers. |
| Other mowed strips, such as along roadways, are used by upland sandpipers and other birds for feeding. |
| Here breeding grounds are shared with broad-billed sandpipers and sometimes red-necked phalaropes. |
| When possible, grasslands found to be used by upland sandpipers should be managed to avoid disturbance during the nesting season. |
| Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers. |
