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Rock sandpipers are the North Pacific equivalents of the purple sandpiper found in the North Atlantic. They are plump and highly social birds that move about in tight flocks in winter (in summer they develop black bellies and live a more solitary existence). I photographed the gray wintering birds at Homer Spit in southern Alaska, and the brownish summer adults and the scruffy-necked juvenile on St. Paul Island in the Pribilof group in the Bering Sea. |
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