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Spotted Sandpiper Juvenile

Spotted Sandpiper Juvenile

Spotted Sandpiper Juvenile

Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper

The picture of this Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper was taken at the East Pond near Big John’s Pond at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York during the fall shorebird migration.

To hear the song of the Spotted Sandpiper, click on the arrow below.

Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Yellowlegs is common, tall, long-legged shorebird of freshwater ponds and tidal marshes, the Greater Yellowlegs frequently announces its presence by its piercing alarm calls. The photograph of this Greater Yellowlegs was taken at the newly constructed blind on the East Pond in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.