Purple Sandpiper, Calidris maritima - 2 - Svalbard

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Purple Sandpiper, Calidris maritima - 2 - Svalbard


Purple sandpipers seemed to like rock and gravel shallows and beaches very near the waterline rather than sand so much - as well as not being notably purple.



Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise around Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle in high summer.