Diademed Sandpiper-Plover, Photo ©Rodrigo Tapia, Far South Expeditions
Probing the mud with one of the longest bills of any plover, a Diademed Sandpiper-Plover wades and looks for invertebrates in a high bog in the Andes east of Santiago, central Chile. A striking bird, its very name reflects the puzzle that early ornithologists faced when confronted with a shorebird that exhibits mixed traits of both Plovers and Sandpipers families.
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