Monday, March 21, 2011

White Dunlin














          
              
Yesterday, while birding with David Muth, Dan Purrington, and Phillip Wallace, we spotted this all-white Dunlin on Gladu Road near the old Vincent mini-refuge north of Kaplan (click on photo to enlarge).  Though Dunlin are incredibly abundant shorebirds, I've never seen a pure white one.  As a matter of fact, although I've seen dozens of cafe-au-lait shorebirds or shorebirds with abnormal patches of white here and there, this is only the second all-white shorebird that I can remember off the top of my head.  A pretty exciting bird, I think.

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