These waders with their hint of purple colouring can often be seen along the Essex coast between Frinton and Holland Haven.
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Purple sandpiper by pstani
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These waders with their hint of purple colouring can often be seen along the Essex coast between Frinton and Holland Haven.
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Newhaven, Sussex
Newhaven, Sussex
Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima)
(c) Hille Zoeke
A purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima) in its breeding plumage, on Svalbard almost two years ago.
This one was ringed and called X6A, on the same place two summers earlier. It was registered only there three summers in a row, and have not been registered later on.
I actually like them better in their grey winter plumage, like we see them when they visit our part of the country.
Yesterday I saw one for the first time on our island, sitting on a skerry as we were out in our boat. It let us get close to photograph it. I look forward to show that one as well one day.
They breed from the arctic islands of northern Canada, eastwards to Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and northern Scandinavia across to Western Siberia and the Taymyr Peninsula. In the high arctic they breed at low altitude on the tundra, sometimes far from the coastline, but in the subarctic regions of Sweden and Norway it breeds on barren mountain sides near the limit of the frozen ground.
Birds breeding at high latitudes migrate south and spend the winter on rocky shores on both sides of the north Atlantic.
(Fjæreplytt i sommerdrakt, in Norwegian)
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Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima)
(c) Hille Zoeke
Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima)
(c) Hille Zoeke
Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima)
(c) Andre Fischer
One of the flock of eight birds bathing & feeding on the sea defences at Ness Point (Lowestoft/Suffolk/UK) - just keeping ahead of the incoming tide although they seem oblivious of waves crashing all around (and over) them.
One of the flock of eight birds bathing & feeding on the sea defences at Ness Point (Lowestoft/Suffolk/UK) - just keeping ahead of the incoming tide although they seem oblivious of waves crashing all around (and over) them.
One of the flock of eight birds bathing & feeding on the sea defences at Ness Point (Lowestoft/Suffolk/UK) - just keeping ahead of the incoming tide although they seem oblivious of waves crashing all around (and over) them.
Meerstrandläufer (Calidris maritima)
(c) Angelika Körber
purple sandpiper swimming between rocks at high water.
Purple sandpipers still standing firm as the incoming tide rises.
Three purple sandpipers at high tide, Portishead.
A purple sandpiper takes a short hop to another outcrop.
