A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Arenaria interpres
A Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) feeding on a sea urchin. This bird is in the middle of moulting, with the brown nonbreeding feathers on the wings contrasting with the rufous-and-black colour of the breeding plumage feathers. Ruddy Turnstones are small shorebirds which use their short beaks to turn over stones as they forage for invertebrates, small fish, or other prey along beaches in worldwide. They breed in the high arctic of North America, Europe, Asia before migrating south each year to winter on beaches as far south as Argentina, South Africa, and New Zealand. Not all turnstones migrate, and this individual stayed in Peru for the northern summer, rather than fly to the arctic.
Sandy intertidal zone, Paracas National Park, Peru
Spotted on Jul 6, 2013
Submitted on Jul 22, 2013
1 Comment
Welcome to Project Noah, ElseMikkelsen
very nice soptting congrats and thanks for sharing
I hope you like the site as much we do; there are many features you can explore:
I invite you to go to http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you will find the purpose and “rules” of Project Noah.
There is a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from spotters with special insight into different organisms.
There are also the chats for help with identification, and to comment on your own and others’ spottings.
Look at the global and local missions to put your spottings into: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions
Enjoy yourself here, see you around!