Pectoral Sandpiper
- Alaskasnipe
- Calidris
melanotos
Tuvsnäppa - Stribet
Ryle - Palsasirri (Alaskansirri)
This Pectoral Sandpiper,
a male in summer plumage, turned up on my local patch at
Tjeldstø on 22 June 2006. Being very vocal it was first picked up on call and
was reasonably confiding during the few minutes of observation. It flew up and displayed with / chased two
Common Snipe - not quite the behaviour expected of what should have
been an exhausted migrant.
