Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
- HABITAT - The Solitary Sandpiper nests in muskeg bogs in areas of coniferous, particularly spruce, forest near ponds and lakes. On migration and in winter it is almost strictly an inland bird, preferring muddy margins of lakes, ponds, streams, and puddles. They winter across a broad area from the extreme southern U.S. south to Central America and tropical South America.
- DIET - Solitary Sandpiper’s diet includes insects and other small aquatic creatures. They feed on many insects of water and shore, including beetles, dragonfly nymphs, grasshoppers; also crustaceans, spiders, worms, mollusks, occasionally small frogs.
- FACTS - Almost all of our sandpipers migrate in flocks . However, as their name suggested, Solitary Sandpapers are usually encountered alone. Sandpapers moslty nest on the ground, except the Solitary Sandpiper, who nests in trees in old used songbird nests.
Solitary Sandpiper GALLERY
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