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Turnstone (juvenile)

Arenaria interpres

Photo by Dangermouse
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Field Notes

Description:

Juvenile similar to adult winter, but with neat ginger-brown or whitish fringes giving distinct scaly pattern above. Distinctive pale-centred breast-side patches, rather dark grey-brown above, often with some dull orange on scapulars. Wing-coverts and terials plain grey-brown. Legs bright orange. Food highly varied, uses bill to turn over stones or seaweed to obtain prey underneath.

Habitat:

Breeds mainly on stony or rocky coasts and in treeless archipelagos. Wary, keeping watch from top of shore or boulder. Winters in a veriety of coastal habitats. Nests on ground.

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