Range: world wide

Alternate adult (facing right) with Ruddy Turnstones and a Sanderling. Photographed at Cupsogue, New York 26 May 2002.

Although the feathers of the upperparts have obvious white edges, they lack the dark subterminal bands of juvenile plumage.

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