Three Amigos
by Fon Denton
Title
Three Amigos
Artist
Fon Denton
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Print
Description
A trio of Eastern Willets , still in winter colors, by the shoreline on a cold windy day. The Willet is a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It is a relatively large and robust sandpiper, and is the largest of the species called "shanks" in the genus Tringa. The eastern willet breeds in coastal saltmarshes while the western willet breeds in freshwater prairie marshes, sloughs, potholes and other inland wetlands. In winter both subspecies are coastal birds being found on both rocky and sandy coasts as well as on mudflats and in coastal marshes. These guys are very common along the beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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October 7th, 2018
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