Purple sandpiper

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The purple sandpiper is mainly grey above and whitish below, as can be seen from David Pye's fine picture.

<B Pen Y Cil: Turnstone, Purple Sandpiper, Rock Pipit by Kim Atkinson

Nature on the canvas; GALLERIES The wonders of the natural world are all around us and we need look no further than our own doorstep, as two artists from opposite ends of Wales have shown..

In flight, the purple sandpiper |reveals a thin white wing stripe.

Sea defence work halted to help birds

A few species of small sandpipers, however, have overcome these limitations, most notably the Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), which in Norway occurs in winter as far as 71[degrees] N (Summers et al., 1990) under prolonged periods of complete darkness, cold temperatures, and steady wind (Summers et al., 1998).

Coping with the cold: an ecological context for the abundance and distribution of rock sandpipers during winter in upper Cook Inlet, Alaska

Lindisfarne is not only an important staging post for migrating birds and a wintering ground for populations of wigeon, pale-bellied brent geese, knot and purple sandpiper, it's also an important breeding site for little, Arctic and common terns, as well as several species of auk, including puffins, razorbills and guillemots.

Northumberland coast

Other shorebirds noted in small numbers were black-bellied plover, American golden-plover, pectoral sandpiper, purple sandpiper (Calidris maritima), red phalarope, ruddy turnstone, and red knot (Calidris canutus).

Shorebird and passerine abundance and habitat use at a High Arctic breeding site: Creswell Bay, Nunavut

The lakes, islands, reedbeds and trees attract large numbers of birds, including Bewick swan, shoveler, lapwing, and purple sandpiper. There is also a diverse flora, including yellow wort, ragged robin, kidney vetch and bloody cranesbill, and the site is particularly attractive in summer.

RAF team fly into action to save birds; Staff prepare nesting sites on the islands

Sandpiper - - + Baird's Sandpiper - - - Pectoral Sandpiper - - - Purple Sandpiper + + + Dunlin - - - Red Phalarope - - - Red-necked

Birds of Bylot Island and adjacent Baffin Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1979 to 1997

They targeted species from basking shark and harbour porpoise to birds such as little tern, sanderling and purple sandpiper, and habitats such as mudflats, dunes, saltmarsh, reefs, kelp beds and wreck sites.

Now the coast is clear; As a major new tourist attraction opens in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea today, DAVE BLACK reports on the changing face of once neglected parts of the North East coastline

A Purple Sandpiper was an unseasonal arrival on Bardsey - they are usually associated with the depths of winter.

BIRD NOTES With Julian Hughes

The first RSPB Puffin Cruise of the season found a late purple sandpiper on Puffin Island, as well as plenty of seabirds.