Sanderling Cutie

by Dawn Currie

Title

Sanderling Cutie

Artist

Dawn Currie

Medium

Photograph - Digital

Description

Wildlife photograph by Dawn Currie. A solitary Sanderling pauses for a moment on the sandy beach. Beautiful feather detail and expression makes for a beautiful portrait.

Sanderlings (Calidris alba) breed in the tundra of High Arctic Canadian islands and peninsulas, and rarely in Alaska. Their nesting habitat ranges from moist sites with lots of vegetation to well-drained clay or gravel slopes, to the tops of stony ridges; it often includes arctic willows, sedges, heathers, purple saxifrage, and mountain avens. While migrating along the North American coast, Sanderlings stop on hard-packed sand beaches, tidal mudflats, rocky coastlines, and inland bodies of water—including ponds, streams, reservoirs, and shallow prairie lakes. They spend the winter on sandy beaches all over the world; some stop as far north as southern Alaska, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland while others go the length of South America. Less commonly, they may winter on mudflats, lakeshores, and riversides.

Features on Fine Art America / Pixels:
- Animal Photographs
- Birds In Focus
- Coastal Water Birds and Shorebirds
- FAA Portraits - Birds
- Wild Birds Of The World
- Wildlife

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October 30th, 2020

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