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common sandpiper

Actittis hypoleucos

Description:

A common solitary visitor to Southern Africa. Small and with a characteristic bobbing movement, it resembles the new world spotted sandpiper's non-breeding plumage.

Habitat:

near chobe river

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2 Comments

KarenSaxton
KarenSaxton 10 years ago

Thank you! I had a blast during the last three weeks and took about 12000 photos, probably 10000 will be used for something. Not sure how many individual species as of yet

Maria dB
Maria dB 10 years ago

Nice one!

KarenSaxton
Spotted by
KarenSaxton

North-West District, Botswana

Spotted on Dec 30, 2013
Submitted on Jan 6, 2014

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