Thailand
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Breeds in Arctic northern Europe and Siberia
...winters in easternmost.Africa, through south
and south-east Asia to Australasia.
Laem Pak Bia District
26Mar2016
The Sandpiper
The roaring alongside he takes for granted,
and that every so often the world is bound to shake.
He runs, he runs to the south, finical, awkward,
in a state of controlled panic, a student of Blake.
(Elizabeth Bishop)
Calidris falcinellus
(L 7.1")
© Tero
Linjama
xeno-canto
Calidris refers to a waterside bird
mentioned by Aristotle;
falcinellus in Latin means sickle.