Green sandpipers are not rare birds, but their habit of feeding discreetly around the smallest of muddy margins makes them easy to miss.
Nine times in ten, it’s their flight call that gives them away. It’s a loud, panicky chooweet or choo-wit-wit, repeated over and over, and getting quieter and quieter as they put distance between themselves and you.
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