Common sandpiper
by Alon Meir
Title
Common sandpiper
Artist
Alon Meir
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos). This is a wading bird that inhabits coastal areas. It is a migrant, spending the northern summer in Europe and Asia and heading to Australasia and southern parts of Africa and Asia in the northern winter. It feeds on molluscs, crustaceans and insects. Photographed in Israel in August.
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July 9th, 2011
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