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Arenaria interpres
Breed along rocky coasts and in the tundra across the High Arctic. During migration they stop along coastal rocky and sandy beaches, mudflats, and shorelines of freshwater lakes to refuel. On their wintering grounds they congregate along rocky shorelines, mudflats, deltas, and sandy beaches.
A small flock was feeding on the rocky shore during low tide. I witnessed why they are called Turnstones. They would stick their bills and foreheads under the small rock rubble and fling them up flipping them over, thus eating the things found under them.
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