Humboldt Bay Jetty Displays the Black Turnstone
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2011
They are a colonial breeder, nesting only in western Alaska, on a narrow band of coastal sedge meadows 2. They leave their breeding grounds in early summer to move down the coast, some travelling as far south as the Gulf of California. Of course, all birds in these photos are in non-breeding plumage.
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