A daily journal.
Mainly introducing wild birds of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, through photos.

エリマキシギ、アカアシシギ、ヒバリシギほか

シギ、チドリの入れ替わりが激しい石垣島です。今日はエリマキシギが2羽、比較的内陸の田んぼにやってきました。

アカアシシギはどこの田んぼに行っても数羽で群れていて、成鳥、幼鳥が混在しています。

ヒバリシギは幼鳥が圧倒的に多いです。

トウネンはやっと幼鳥が入りだしました。代わりに成鳥の個体数は減りました。

ほかは、タカブシギやセイタカシギ、チュウジシギが多く滞在しています。

Ruff

Ruff, male juvenile. A female juvenile was also present in the same paddy field.

Common Redshank

Common Redshank juvenile. A little first-winter plumage is just starting to show.

Long-toed Stint

Long-toed Stint in juvenile plumage. Beautiful.

Red-necked Stint

Little Stint juvenile.

Wood Sandpiper

Wood Sandpiper moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.

Grey-tailed Tattler

Grey-tailed Tattler, adult in late summer plumage (foreground), and juvenile.

Swinhoe's Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe juvenile.

Lesser Sand Plover

Lesser Sand Plover juvenile. It had apparently retreated to the paddy fields during the spring tide high water.

Dunlin

Dunlin juvenile. Adults have yet to appear this year.

Categories: 野鳥