Keep an eye out near freshwater streams, rivers, and ponds to spot a spotted sandpiper. Plus, learn why they've been ...

There have been several recent sightings near the coast of the rare buff-breasted sandpiper, which is migrating from the Arctic to South America.Found primarily during migration season in the states, ...

If you’ve made the drive either direction between Frisco and Breckenridge in the last week, you’ve seen scores of people out on the south end of Dillon Reservoir attempting to catch a glimpse of ...

Here in Upstate New York a friend of mine has created several man-made ponds on his property. These ponds attract a large assortment of birds and other wildlife. The identity of one of these birds has ...

I’ve recently moved to Cape Cod and have been faithfully reading your weekly column. While I’ve enjoyed learning about hummingbirds and bluebirds, I would really like to know more about the beach ...

Four sandpipers congregate on a workbench in the basement of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. At first glance, the shorebirds look genuine — not unlike the hundreds of taxidermy specimens ...

WITH the next stage in the £100m Southsea sea defence project set to begin the welfare of ‘remarkable’ wading birds – the purple sandpiper – should be of concern to us, writes Dr Philip Crispin of ...

Cuteness aside, though, sandpipers are pretty confusing, because "sandpiper" is both a species name and the colloquial name for the Scolopacidae family of birds. There are dozens of Scolopacidae ...

Nigel Jarrett, WWT's head of conservation breeding, recalls the long journey the birds have been through Thirteen of the world's rarest birds have been moved out of quarantine as part of a project to ...