Turnstone (juvenile)

Description:

Juvenile similar to adult winter, but with neat ginger-brown or whitish fringes giving distinct scaly pattern above. Distinctive pale-centred breast-side patches, rather dark grey-brown above, often with some dull orange on scapulars. Wing-coverts and terials plain grey-brown. Legs bright orange. Food highly varied, uses bill to turn over stones or seaweed to obtain prey underneath.

Habitat:

Breeds mainly on stony or rocky coasts and in treeless archipelagos. Wary, keeping watch from top of shore or boulder. Winters in a veriety of coastal habitats. Nests on ground.