オオメダイチドリ幼鳥、メダイチドリとの格闘
定例調査で海岸3カ所巡り。オオメダイチドリの幼鳥が増えていました。ムナグロやキアシシギ、ソリハシシギ、メダイチドリ、キョウジョシギなどもぼちぼち。
Greater Sand Plover, juvenile. Adults had been trickling in from late June, but this is the first juvenile of the season.
Greater Sand Plover, juvenile. It was feeding on the tidal flat, picking up small worm-like creatures that looked like polychaetes.
Same individual as above. Moulting from juvenile to first-winter plumage.
Lesser Sand Plover, adult non-breeding plumage.
Greater Sand Plover, adult non-breeding plumage.
A stand-off between a Greater Sand Plover (right) and a Lesser Sand Plover.
A dispute between a Lesser Sand Plover (left) and a Greater Sand Plover.
The squabbling over feeding territory was being instigated by the Greater Sand Plover (left).
Greater Sand Plover, adult non-breeding plumage.
Grey-tailed Tattler that caught a shrimp, moulting from first-cycle breeding to second-cycle non-breeding plumage.
I feel like Ruddy Turnstones are here all year round.
Pacific Golden Plover, late first-cycle breeding plumage.
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