Short, stocky, oval-shaped shorebird with a stout and slightly upturned bill. Breeding birds have a calico patterned back and a black-and-white face. Note orange legs.
Short, stocky, oval-shaped shorebird with a stout and slightly upturned bill. Nonbreeding birds have a brown ghosting of the breeding plumage pattern and orange legs.
Stout body tapers to a slender tail. Walks along shorelines turning over rocks and debris to look for flies and midges hiding underneath.
In flight, note the white stripe down the back, a black tail stripe, a white rump, and white stripes down the wings.
Juveniles look like nonbreeding birds, but have rusty edges to the feathers on the upperparts.
Flips rocks, pebbles, and seaweed along shorelines in search of food with stout but sharply pointed bill.
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The Ruddy Turnstone is a short, stocky, and oval-shaped shorebird. They have a stout and slightly upturned bill.
Larger than a Spotted Sandpiper, smaller than a Willet.
robin-sizedSandpipers and Allies(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Scolopacidae)
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