The upland sandpiper is different from other birds in several respects. To begin with, it has two common names. For the last 30 years or so, it's been called upland sandpiper; earlier, it was often ...

Claim to fame: This long-beaked bird may have the biological classification of “shorebird,” but when it’s in Missouri, it probably won’t be anywhere near shores. In this area, as is the case ...

The upland sandpiper was "bird of the week" one year ago this month, and this column described the bird's qualifications. These included a bit of trivia, that this is the only species whose common ...

Thousands of shorebirds roosted on the mud flats of the impoundment at Heislerville Wildlife Management Area along the Delaware Bay shore in southern New Jersey. Maybe the number was more like tens of ...

Concerns have been raised after a new report looking at Scottish terrestrial breeding birds showed that all farmland species ...

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